Re: generating un-stripped libraries...

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:45 PM -0400 Francis Swasey 
<Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu> wrote:

> On 6/22/05 2:39 PM, Aaron Richton wrote:
> > # gdb openldap-2.2.26/servers/slurpd/slurpd core.632
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> Core was generated by `openldap-2.2.26/servers/slurpd/slurpd -d -1'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> # 0  0x00625090 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> # 0  0x00625090 in ?? ()
> # 1  0xbefffa70 in ?? ()
> # 2  0x006248bd in ?? ()
> # 3  0xbefff9d8 in ?? ()
> # 4  0x00000020 in ?? ()
> # 5  0xbefff9d8 in ?? ()
> # 6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) quit
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> With an unstripped binary and all the redhat debuginfo rpm's installed
> for the libraries (other than ldap)... this should show me real
> information... shouldn't it?

That depends... Was the binary & libraries built with debugging symbols? 
("-g" for gcc).

I build my OpenLDAP software with "-g -O2".

--Quanah

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