From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21918 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2006 21:17:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 21909 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2006 21:17:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:17:24 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GIAxR-0008CJ-V2; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:17:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:17:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Steve Eaton Cc: Mark Kettenis , dits365@gmail.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: What exactly does "info sharedlibrary" command show? Message-ID: <20060829211717.GA31393@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Eaton , Mark Kettenis , dits365@gmail.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20060829123954.GB12955@nevyn.them.org> <200608291914.k7TJEOPY016721@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060829192758.GA27571@nevyn.them.org> <200608292005.k7TK5M2q021703@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060829201206.GA28907@nevyn.them.org> <44F457AC.742A.00E2.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44F457AC.742A.00E2.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00228.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:05:19PM -0600, Steve Eaton wrote: > Now imagine you had to do something useful with the said core file. I > have to try and match up all of the above shared libraries of various > versions, or try and get fancy and parse the output and tar up the users > files. You don't have the luxury of having the -g in every library that > is run everywhere. > > The best I have been able to do is to get the user to open the file in > gdb and do a > thread apply all bt, in that way I can fiddle around with different > versions of shared library files until the stacks look right. > > Is there an option that a person could configure to include the so > files in the core or something equivelent ? Not that I know of, but it's been suggested for at least Linux in the past. You may wish to ask your OS vendor to implement this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery