how to use *.debuginfo rpms.

[Neil Bird]

Around about 11/01/07 13:46, Pawel typed ...
> I unfortunatelly did not find any information on how to use debuginfo
> files for debugging purposes, that's why I decided to ask You.
> ... I set breakpoint at main() function in
> /usr/src/debug/ethereal-0.10.14/tethereal.c. I am really surprised that I
> can do it! Does it mean that fedora developers do not remove debug
> symbols from /usr/sbin/tethereal, which in fact is an executable?

   Pretty much everything's built with debug symbols (I don't understand 
your "even though it's an executable" query), but these are stripped out 
into the debuginfo RPMs.

   So by default you can't debug/decode coredumps, but if you install that 
package's debuginfo RPM, you can.  Usually.

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