On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:39 +0100, Mark Phalan wrote: > On 27 Mar 2008, at 20:44, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:10:19PM +0100, Mark Phalan wrote: > >> Up until recently when I was debugging something I sometimes liked to > >> build debug libraries that I could use with dbx. > >> For e.g. when building mech_krb5.so.1 I built like this: > >> > >> CTFCONVERT_O="" CTFMERGE_LIB="" COPTFLAG="-g" COPTFLAG64="-g" make > >> install > > > > I usually do this instead: > > > > % export STRIPSTABS_KEEP_STABS=1 > > % dmake COPTFLAG=-g COPTFLAG64=-g install > > > > STRIPSTABS_KEEP_STABS is that which tells the ctf tools not to remove > > the debug info. > > Thanks for the tip, I'll try this too.
I tried that. Unfortunately I got the same errors as before. Removing the '-g' options results in a library which can be debugged but dbx still notes as being optimized. I can live with that but I'd like to compile the lib with no optimizations. -M
