[poky] Missing debug info

Mark Hatle mark.hatle at windriver.com
Sun Apr 3 12:56:27 PDT 2011


On 4/3/11 9:53 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to debug some code which uses the openssl library, built from
> the Poky mainline.  For some reason (not obvious to me), there is no debug
> info for this library, which makes GDB pretty useless :-(
> 
> (gdb) info sharedlibrary
>  From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
> 0x40077790  0x4008f60c  Yes         /tmp/cobra_root/lib/ld-linux.so.3
> 0x401abf80  0x401d57d8  Yes (*)     /tmp/cobra_root/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
> 0x40225548  0x402cfbfc  Yes (*)     /tmp/cobra_root/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
> 0x400f28f8  0x4010cf90  Yes         /tmp/cobra_root/usr/lib/libpcap.so.1
> 0x40326340  0x4040e8d8  Yes         /tmp/cobra_root/lib/libc.so.6
> 0x401278fc  0x40128614  Yes         /tmp/cobra_root/lib/libdl.so.2
> (*): Shared library is missing debugging information.
> 
> Any idea why these libraries don't have debg info?  how to get it?
> Rebuilding that library with printf() is pretty tedious...
> 
> Thanks
> 

Do the libraries in question have corresponding -dbg package that are empty?  Or
is there stuff in there, it's just incomplete?

What I'm trying to understand is were these items stripped during the recipe
build, or when they're supposed to be by the package.bbclass into the regular
and dbg packages.

--Mark



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