RE: GDB usage when not installed by root

RE: GDB usage when not installed by root

[Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz]

Please ignore my previous message.  I just found out that the user having the 
problem had been compiling with gcc-3.0.4 and not gcc-3.1  When the test files 
are compiled with gcc-3.1, gdb appears to work correctly on Solaris (Solaris 8 
with -m64).  It still does not work on DEC TRU64 (V5.1) but that may be fixed 
in gdb-5.2.1

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GDB usage when not installed by root

[Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz]

I have gdb running on Solaris 8 (built in 64 bit mode "-m64").  It is 
installed in /usr/local/ by a specific non root account and group (example uid 
- builder, group tester).  This is deliberately set up so that the external 
application maintainers do not have to have root access on the corporate 
servers.

When I run gdb against a test file in my home directory (as myself not 
builder), the gdb seems to work correctly.  However, when another user (who is 
not a member of the tester group) attempts to use gdb, it is unable to insert 
a breakpoint on a test file that he has created and compiled himself in his 
home directory.  He is also not able to insert the breakpoint in the test file 
that I built in my home directory nor am I able to insert a breakpoint in the 
test application that he built in his home area.

Is there a specific setting that I must use when installing gdb in order for 
the breakpoint logic to work properly for all users?

Please respond directly to me as well as to the mailing list as I cannot 
normally access the mailing list.

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 The fish are the Jews, Torah is our water

Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz - sabbahem@bcpl.net