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symtab/1947: gdb should canonicalize symlinks when looking for .debug files
- From: greenrd at greenrd dot org
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 23 May 2005 22:16:15 -0000
- Subject: symtab/1947: gdb should canonicalize symlinks when looking for .debug files
- Reply-to: greenrd at greenrd dot org
>Number: 1947
>Category: symtab
>Synopsis: gdb should canonicalize symlinks when looking for .debug files
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon May 23 22:18:01 UTC 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: greenrd@greenrd.org
>Release: gdb-6.3.0.0-1.21 (Fedora development release)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Fedora Core 3.92 (pre-FC4)
>Description:
When I tried to debug /usr/bin/rpmbuild, gdb couldn't find the debugging information (i.e. the .debug file) for that executable, because /usr/bin/rpmbuild is actually a symlink to /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb, and therefore the relevant .debug file was actually /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/rpm/rpmb.debug. I would argue that gdb should canonicalize symlinks before looking for a .debug file, because it does not make sense to have a separate .debug file for a symlink.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a symlink to an executable which has an associated .debug file installed, that gdb can find.
Run gdb --args /path/to/symlink
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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