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authorThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2009-02-01 22:49:52 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2009-02-01 22:49:52 +0100
commitf1fbb84db3499a151743a9b3609207bec04a6bf8 (patch)
treed19aa23958c441e92ba3f4400ba699f69e38c4ec /hurd
parent33fba389f8b5c3cd72fe682e1fe02567c8460893 (diff)
Update.
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd')
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn
index d28eccd7..375f042e 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -11,10 +12,8 @@ is included in the section entitled
To get [[debugging]] information for glibc, you need to install the
`libc0.3-dbg` package. At the place [[debugging/GDB]] looks for debugging
symbols by default (`/usr/lib/debug/lib/`), Debian's `libc0.3-dbg` stores only
-frame unwind information. If you want to step into glibc while debugging, you
-need to add `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug` to GDB's environment. If that
-still does not work, try `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/libc.so.0.3` instead. You
-can add to GDB's environment via `set env FOO bar` from the GDB command line.
-
-It seems that this is no longer needed with the Debian glibc 2.5 packages, but
-I may as well be wrong. Have to check that again.
+the frame unwind information used for backtracing. If you want to step into
+glibc while debugging, you need to add `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug` to
+debugged program's environment (`set env VAR value` from the GDB command line).
+If that still does not work, try `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/libc.so.0.3`
+instead.