Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:11:49 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to produce debugging symbols? Message-ID: <20030326201149.GE31787@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030326200449.GB967@bsdsi.homeunix.com> References: <20030326200449.GB967@bsdsi.homeunix.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 26), Martin Moeller said: > I have a rather general question on debugging. I'm experiencing some > problems with some programs on FreeBSD 5.0. Because I'm quite a unix > newbie, I can only write to some mailinglists to ask if somebody > knows what to do. > > But I would like to take a few steps to solve my problems on my own. > I read something about gdb and kernel debugging, but find that > somehow disturbing. So I would like to ask a very *stupid* newbie > question: > > I can run a program within gdb, but I don't see the program's source > code. I assume this is meant with debug symbols? How can I compile a > program with those debug symbols? If it's your program, recompile and link with the -g commandline switch added. If it's a base FreeBSD program (or port), edit the Makefile and add a line reading "DEBUG_FLAGS=-g" (this will compile with -g and also no strip the debugging symbols when the binary gets installed). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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