On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:54 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > If only. In fact what happens is: > > > > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/c1/8f4feceb846cc1f5353fd9bf2dead28a8c19e7.debug > > error: file /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/c1/8f4feceb846cc1f5353fd9bf2dead28a8c19e7.debug: No such file or directory > > > > This question arises when I get a message from (say) gdb informing me > > that a *.debug package needed to debug an application hasn't been > > loaded, and I want to find which of the many libraries accessed by the > > application are the ones whose *.debug packages need to be loaded. > > You might want to check out the gdb update that's soon to hit > updates-testing. It intends to improve the output a bit to make it > much less cryptic. There was a post on it to fedora-devel yesterday: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg02478.html The new gdb appears to answer my questions, though I haven't tested it further than to see that it doesn't crash on startup and puts out comprehensible error messages. Thanks - jon
