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diff --git a/faq/dev/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn b/faq/dev/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f2d4ee3 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/dev/debugging_inside_glibc.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +In Debian, to get [[debugging]] information for glibc, you need to install the +`libc0.3-dbg` package. At the place [[debugging/GDB]] looks for debugging +symbols by default (`/usr/lib/debug/lib/`), Debian's `libc0.3-dbg` stores only +the frame unwind information used for backtracing. If you want to step into +glibc while debugging, you need to add `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug` to +debugged program's environment (`set env VAR value` from the GDB command line). +If that still does not work, try `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/debug/libc.so.0.3` +instead. |