On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:17:58PM -0700, carmel zuk wrote:
> I'm trying to debug vim with gdb to learn about how vim works and maybe help
> with bug fixes.
> I compiled the source with
> export CFLAGS="-ggdb"
> But when I run
> gdb vim
> I get
>
> ...
> Reading symbols from vim...(no debugging symbols found)...done
it sounds as if you are using a vim that's been installed -- one of the
many things
make install
does is to strip debug info from the executable -- if you want to run an
unstripped vim, you need to go to the source
[installed, stripped]:
file /usr/local/bin/vim
/usr/local/bin/vim: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 3.0.0,
BuildID[sha1]=4928e15976740cb7720b1e262f50681969dfda50, stripped
[uninstalled, unstripped]:
file ~/.build/vim/vim/src/vim
~/.build/vim/vim/src/vim: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 3.0.0,
BuildID[sha1]=4928e15976740cb7720b1e262f50681969dfda50, not stripped
so if you run
gdb ~/.build/vim/vim/src/vim
you'll likely get a better reaction
(you'll want to replace my directory structure with yours)
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