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To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: strip --strip-nondebug
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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:08:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <16095.28727.461421.387212@localhost.redhat.com> (Elena
 Zannoni's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:30:47 -0400")
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Hi Elena,

> Nick, cool. Have you tried using gdb with the separate debug info
> resulting from your command? It should work transparently, once you
> set the debug directory, if needed.
>
> (gdb) help set debug-file-directory
> Set the directory where separate debug symbols are searched for.
> Separate debug symbols are first searched for in the same
> directory as the binary, then in the `.debug' subdirectory,
> and lastly at the path of the directory of the binary with
> the global debug-file directory prepended

Apparently not :-(  Is there a good way to watch gdb try to find debug
information and find out what is wrong ?

Cheers
        Nick