On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:22:24PM +0200, Pawel wrote: > Hallo Group Members > > I just installed glibc-debuginfo-2.5-10.fc6 on my fedora fc6, just to get some debug symbols from it. > It turns out that libraries do not contain debug symbols: > > prompt$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.5.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/nosegneg/libc-2.5.so.debug > glibc-debuginfo-2.5-10.fc6 > glibc-debuginfo-2.5-10.fc6 > > prompt$ objdump -t /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/nosegneg/libc-2.5.so.debug > /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/nosegneg/libc-2.5.so.debug: file format elf32-i386 > > SYMBOL TABLE: > no symbols > > prompt$ objdump -t /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.5.so.debug > /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.5.so.debug: file format elf32-i386 > > SYMBOL TABLE: > no symbols > > why is debuginfo package for, then? For the .debug* sections. Some glibc libraries are intentionally stripped with eu-strip -g -f ... , so symbol table and string table are kept in the installed libraries. Jakub
