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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn | 20 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn index 133667ca..bfd73dac 100644 --- a/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn @@ -27,20 +27,6 @@ the respective Debian packages, or directly at # Porting Packages -# Debugging inside glibc - -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. - - # Debugging Translators In order to [[debug|debugging]] translators and being able to step into glibc diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..85b58500 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] + +# Debugging inside glibc + +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. |