Why does gdb now give lots of warnings?

[Andrew Haley]

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.


 > Starting program: /usr/bin/python
 > 
 > Try: yum install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug
 > 
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/e8/abaa654dc4b17b75c06c866898a17ea06f2bcf.debug
 > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
 > [New process 16964]
 > 
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/96/c005fcc474ab8b0d1aa41267111de2f0b647b0.debug
 > 
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/cd/19bdc5e57f1a00b2c7b4d6c6d1e3882d199ef9.debug
 > 
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/72/0ad477c75be7d7cbc97c0a6f443746dda98341.debug
 > 
 > warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ea/5b2fb654311e2dc8beacf2f19c1c6d172ba93d.debug
 > 
 > ...
 > 
 > 
 > Also removing the empty line (despite it may occasionally start in half of the
 > screen) may help, I guess.

It would.

Andrew.

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