Jan Kratochvil writes: > On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:57:20 +0100, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:49:15 -0500 > > Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I agree that that's annoying, but you can just enable the debuginfo > > > repo and then yum install the given missing filename. Yum will work > > > out which package provides it. > > > > You can also just use debuginfo-install <appname> and it will enable > > the repo for you and track down all the needed debuginfo packages. > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-10-21 15:58 /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug -> ../../lib64/ld-2.7.so.debug* > tells the name of the already installed library missing its -debuginfo. > > $ repoquery -qf /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug > glibc-debuginfo-0:2.7-2.x86_64 > tells the -debuginfo package name needing to be installed. > > # yum install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/fa/841219472d35412ad631ad0f0fabb78e5c1957.debug > installs the missing -debuginfo package. > > The library name was omitted intentionally there as the printed lines are > already too long just to be able to provide the .debug filename required for > `yum install'. > > People commonly try to debug with GDB without having the -debuginfo packages > installed so I expected some hint may be useful there. > > `debuginfo-install <appname>' may not install the matching -debuginfo version, > there may be multiple simultaneous -debuginfo versions available and/or > installed in the future (F9?). > > I am open for some more convenient interface - currently going to print also > the shared library name there. That would do it. Something really simple like "Missing debuginfo for shared object XXXXglibc.soXXX". > (GDB cannot print anything about rpms.) I'll take your word for that. Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
