Why does gdb now give lots of warnings?

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:15 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Jan Kratochvil writes:
>  > On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:53:09 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > > Jan Kratochvil writes:
>  > ...
>  > > > OK, you are right Fedora GDB could; the build-id support messages should be
>  > > > cross-OS ones, this loading feature is still not imported into upstream GDB and
>  > > > it is heading there.
>  > > 
>  > > Sure, but we could have a simple local message like
>  > > 
>  > > Try "yum install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/72/67a2ecd318b0f87a0747a6986d0d6dc01c6d8d.debug"
>  > > 
>  > > I learnt only today that would work...
>  > 
>  > Such as this one - just for the first such message printed?  I guess changing
>  > the `Missing ...' message itself would be already too OS-specific.
> 
> Perfection would be:
> 
> Missing debuginfo for /lib64/libnss_files-2.7.so
> Try "yum install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/72/67a2ecd318b0f87a0747a6986d0d6dc01c6d8d.debug"
> 
> If we can't do that upstream, then the closer we get, the better.  Or
> we have a local patch.

 Well what we really want here is:

 Try "debuginfo-install glibc" (or "debuginfo-install python" if they
are running gdb on that), but that requires some kind of integration
with rpm or yum.

-- 
James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>
Red Hat
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