From 38cfa89677eabc85fc23e31e24cee85fb1ecfa54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:36:54 +0200 Subject: Rework FAQ machinery to be based on tags instead of filenames. --- faq/debugging_translators.mdwn | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 faq/debugging_translators.mdwn (limited to 'faq/debugging_translators.mdwn') diff --git a/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn b/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..195b2276 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/debugging_translators.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2013 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag faq/development]] + +In order to [[debug|debugging]] translators and being able to step into glibc +during it, on Debian you need the `hurd-dbg` and `libc0.3-dbg` packages installed. +If you need to debug the initialization of the translator, start the translator +like + + $ settrans -P /foo /usr/bin/env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug /hurd/foofs + +The `-P` option will make it +pause and you will be able to attach [[debugging/GDB]] to the process. -- cgit v1.2.3