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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:49:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb
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To: "Maucci, Cyrille" <cyrille.maucci@hp.com>
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> From: "Maucci, Cyrille" <cyrille.maucci@hp.com>
> CC: "Maucci, Cyrille" <cyrille.maucci@hp.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:13:02 +0000
> 
> So, that is the kind of barrier I need to work around because for support reasons, I dramatically need a single feature of gdb on such systems which is the backtrace extraction feature.
> 
> Is there any possibility to 'recompile' gdb where only the 'bt' (or 'threads apply all bt') feature would be enabled?

If that system is GNU/Linux (or anything else glibc-based), then you
should know that there's a glibc function that can produce a
backtrace.