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To: Roberto Jung Drebes <drebes@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Location of modules with debug info
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:35:00 -0000
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Roberto Jung Drebes <drebes@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> I replaced the stripped module with the non-stripped one, and indeed
> my probe then works. 

Great.

> If there's no way of specifying the alternate path [...]

There is the DEBUGINFO_PATH environment variable, but the problem is
that elfutils is not even looking for debuginfo for these modules,
since once it found the plain stripped module, it didn't think there's
any hope to keep looking.

We could tweak this logic.

- FChE