RFC: objdump: Add --debug-dir=<DIR> option
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Tue Apr 21 09:32:43 GMT 2026
Hi Frank,
>> Attached is a potential patch to improve objdump and readelf by adding
>> a command line option that specifies a directory to be searched when
>> looking for separate debug information files. I found this to be very
>> helpful when the debug information is not stored in one of the
>> "standard" locations expected by the programs. [...]
>
> By the way, you can handle this scenario easily enough by running a
> local temporary copy of elfutils debuginfod, giving it a list of your
> build subdirectories:
>
> debuginfod -p 8003 -d :memory: -F /build/tree/1 /build/tree/2 &
> export DEBUGINFOD_URLS=http://localhost:8003/
>
> The toolchain can then find sources & binaries & debuginfo.
Thanks for the tip :-).
Cheers
Nick
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