[Bug tools/27573] eu-unstrip: assemble debugable executable for a core file

mliska at suse dot cz sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Fri Mar 12 17:45:19 GMT 2021


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27573

--- Comment #2 from Martin Liska <mliska at suse dot cz> ---
(In reply to Mark Wielaard from comment #1)
> I assume this would be some kind of "pack" command? Which would pack all
> relevant files, executables and debuginfo together into one directory?

Exactly.

> 
> Maybe it should be an extension to debuginfod-find.
> Something like debuginfod-find pack <corefile> <dir>?
> Should it just be the executable? Include the debuginfo? Sources?

It should be likely something that can gdb properly consume.

> 
> Could you describe the use case a little more?

Imagine you receive a core file for an old supported product. You want to
investigate it in gdb on a different machine (with a more recent OS) and you
want to get all the needed debugging information from a debuginfod server.

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