Re: GDB 5.1 on Solaris 2.8

[gdb@thewrittenword.com]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:55:39AM -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>   > I've just built GDB 5.1 on Solaris 2.8, and I have a problem: GDB says
>   > there's no debugging symbols in every executable I find, even though
>   > they
>   > were compiled and linkes with -g.  dbx does find the debugging info.
>   > >From what I see, GDB does find the minimal symbols, since I can put
>   > breakpoints, but it cannot find the source line information.
>   > 
>   > This is the first time I build GDB on Solaris, so I don't know whether
>   > this is a known issue (not a word in README, though), or maybe I
>   > goofed
>   > during the build.
>   > 
>   > The compiler used to compile GDB and the programs I try to debug was
>   > SunWspro ANSI C compiler.
>   > 
>   > Any ideas are welcome.
> 
> 
> It sounds that this is due to the fact that Sun's compiler+linker do not
> put the full debugging information in the binary by default. 
> They only put some minimal debug info in the binary and leave the
> rest in the object files. 
> 
> Try compiling with -g -xs and see if you can debug then. 

$ pwd
/opt/src/devel/gdb-5.1
$ ls -ld a.c
-rw-rw-r--   1 china    src           33 Nov 23 15:25 a.c
$ cat a.c
int
main (void) {
  int a = 1;
}
$ cc -V
cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15
$ cc -g -xs a.c
$ dbx a.out
dbx> list 1,+
    1   int
    2   main (void) {
    3     int a = 1;
    4   }
dbx> exit
$ gdb a.out
gdb> list
/opt/src/devel/gdb-5.1: Is a directory.

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)