Re: Missing separate debuginfos

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> Debug info for packages used by the program missing. Install with:
Pedro> debuginfo-install

Pedro> But of course that may well just be me.

Maybe be even wordier, like

    Some debug info for packages used by the program is missing.  You can
    install this with:

       debuginfo-install package-1 \
           package-2 \
           package-3

    Once the packages are installed, you can use them in the current gdb
    with:

       nosharedlibrary
       sharedlibrary .*

    Future invocations of gdb will pick them up automatically.

Of course then you get into pagination, especially if you have a ton of
uninstalled debug packages.

We could trim this down the second time it is printed.

Maybe it would be nice if debuginfo-install were a gdb command.
Then it could do the sharedlibrary dance for the user, without needing
nosharedlibrary.


The "nosharedlibrary" thing is also hard to figure out.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12794
and http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14479

This could definitely use an enhancement.

Tom