debugging core files from other machines with archived symbol files

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Tue Aug 19 13:29:00 GMT 2003


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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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