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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Alejandro Homs" <ahoms@cells.es>
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Subject: Re: libpython2.4.so: Cannot load symbols for shared library with 	separate debuginfo
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"Alejandro Homs" <ahoms@cells.es> writes:

> Thanks a lot for your fast response!
>
>> It should always try to load the separate debug file.  Is
>> debug-file-directory set to /usr/lib/debug, and is there a
>> .gnu_debuglink section in libpython.2.4.so.1.0?  You may have
>> to debug GDB to find out what it thinks it's doing.
>
> You are right, the debug-file-directory is pointing to /usr/lib/debug, but
> there is no .gnu_debuglink section in libpython.2.4.so.1.0.
> I am obliged to generate the .gnu_debuglink section? 

If there is no debuglink section then the debug info file most likely
does not belong to this library.

Andreas.

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