From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5493 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2003 13:29:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5474 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 13:29:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2003 13:29:41 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19p6YP-0004t5-71; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:29:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Erik Gustafsson Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: debugging core files from other machines with archived symbol files Message-ID: <20030819132941.GB18748@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Erik Gustafsson , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00217.txt.bz2 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