On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 14:13:49 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: [..] >> Is there a remote server that shares a folder that I could mount >> (e.g. using FUSE) and get all symbols without having to install all >> the packages myself? > >I didn't understand this exactly. Is this related to the Debug >packages? Do you want to mount a repository and use the debug packages >without having to install them?
How this actually works is that debug symbols are stripped from the executables and a new ELF section is put in that points to /usr/lib/debug/... When gdb loads an executable with that section it uses the pointer to find the debugging symbols. One thing that is nice about the Windows platform is remote symbol servers. Now, if someone would install _all_ debug packages on a machine on the internet, and export its /usr/lib/debug, then I can mount that export on my machine and gdb would be able to find debug symbols without my having to install a single debug package. Is someone exporting /usr/lib/debug in this way? Cheers, M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus
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