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Re: debugging core files from other machines with archived symbol files
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Erik Gustafsson <loa_gus at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:29:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: debugging core files from other machines with archived symbol files
- References: <BAY1-F1042H7ufgzqbP00005976@hotmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:21:04PM +0200, Erik Gustafsson wrote:
> Hmm.. Isn't this something you want to be able to do?
>
> Seems to me that everybody that is shipping software to customers would
> like to be able to debug crash dumps from customer sites in a simple way.
>
> I'm not sure I understand on what level the problem is. Is this a missing
> feature in GDB or missing information in the core file?
But I don't find it any particular problem to do it by recreating the
filesystem image, if I don't have the debugging libraries installed on
my system anyway. That's what solib-absolute-prefix is for anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer