How to make use of debuginfo RPMs

[Neil Bird]

   What are debuginfo RPMs supposed to let me do?  Are they there only
to help decode coredumps?  Do I need to set up any env. vars,. or
anything to trigger their use?

   I've tried a no. of times to debug through a problem prog., always
failing to 'step into' shared libraries (e.g., GTK) unless I've built
them locally myself.  I've tried linking with and/or running with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and even LD_PRELOAD pointing to files installed with
debuginfo RPMs, but I've never been able to get 'into' them via the
debugger.

   I also haven't been able to find anything definitive on the Net that
talks about their use.

-- 
[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit