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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: luca regini <luca.regini@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Beginner question regarding gdb symbol files
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221134725.GA6642@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64077c280802210543r163ce60aje62c2d6fc4632554@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:43:58PM +0100, luca regini wrote:
> I have a project that is organized like the Makefile that follows. I
> have an executable that links two shared objects. I separate debug
> symbols from shared libraries and executable files. I would like to
> debug the stripped executable using the stripped symbols. Sadly i am
> not able to view any debug information. I tryed to use both the
> symbol-file and add-symbol-file to read the stripped symbols.
> Any help is very appreciated.

If you use --only-keep-debug, also use objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink to
create the final executable.  GDB needs that pointer from your program
to the debug file.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 13:47 luca regini
2008-02-21 16:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-02-28 16:13   ` luca regini
2008-02-28 16:53     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-28 17:00       ` luca regini
2008-02-28 17:13         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-29  1:10           ` Michael Snyder
2008-02-29 13:40             ` luca regini
2008-02-29 18:19               ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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