Re: Why does gdb now give lots of warnings?

[David Nielsen <david lovesunix net>]

fre, 04 01 2008 kl. 14:52 +0000, skrev Andrew Haley:
> Neal Becker writes:
>  > Here is an example:
>  > 
>  > Starting program: /usr/bin/python 
>  > 
>  > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug
> 
> You haven't installed the -debug packages for the shared libs you've
> loaded.  Telling you this isn't a bug.
> 
> What *is* a bug, IMO, is that you can't tell which shared libs it's
> complaining about.

Sounds like a job for PackageKit, look up the path to figure out which
packages we are missing and offer the user to install the missing debug
symbols.

- David