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[binutils-gdb] Look for build-id-based separate debug files under the sysroot
- From: sergiodj+buildbot at sergiodj dot net
- To: gdb-testers at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:06:27 -0500
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Look for build-id-based separate debug files under the sysroot
*** TEST RESULTS FOR COMMIT 07bc701d03167b8006835da583a03d98177cd4b6 ***
Author: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Branch: master
Commit: 07bc701d03167b8006835da583a03d98177cd4b6
Look for build-id-based separate debug files under the sysroot
When looking for a separate debug file that matches a given build-id,
GDB only looks in the host's debug dir (typically /usr/lib/debug). This
patch makes it look in the sysroot as well. This is to match the
behavior of GDB when using debuglink-based separate debug files,
introduced in :
402d2bfec42 ("Look for separate debug files in debug directories under a sysroot.")
In the following example, my sysroot is "/tmp/sysroot" and I am trying
to load symbols for
/tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so. This is
the current behavior:
(gdb) file /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so
Reading symbols from /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so...
Looking for separate debug info (build-id) for /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so
Trying /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f3/d6594d2600e985812cd4ba2ad083ac2aceae22.debug... no, unable to compute real path
<snip>
(No debugging symbols found in /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so)
With this patch:
(gdb) file /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so
Reading symbols from /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so...
Looking for separate debug info (build-id) for /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gconv/EBCDIC-AT-DE.so
Trying /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f3/d6594d2600e985812cd4ba2ad083ac2aceae22.debug... no, unable to compute real path
Trying /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f3/d6594d2600e985812cd4ba2ad083ac2aceae22.debug... yes!
Reading symbols from /tmp/sysroot/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f3/d6594d2600e985812cd4ba2ad083ac2aceae22.debug...
In the original code, there is a suspicious "abfd.release ()" in
build_id_to_debug_bfd, that I don't understand. If a file with the
right name exists but its build-id note doesn't match, we release (leak)
our reference, meaning the file will stay open? I removed it in the new
code, so that the reference is dropped if we end up not using that file.
I tested briefly by corrupting a separate debug file to trigger this
code, nothing exploded.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* build-id.c (build_id_to_debug_bfd_1): New function.
(build_id_to_debug_bfd): Look for separate debug file in
sysroot.