On 08/04/2012 07:10 PM, Marcelo Zimbres wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some trouble to debug programs built from autotools. I am > following the steps: > > $ ./configure CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" > $ make > $ libtool --mode=execute gdb --arg ./swat_find arg_list > > When I run the last line, I get the error message: > > Reading symbols from > /home/marcelo/Public/swat/debug/.libs/lt-swat_find...(no debugging symbols > found)...done. > > Why there are no symbols? The output of make shows the flags have been > passed to gcc, for example: > > libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/root > -I/usr/local/include/root -I -I -g -O0 -MT libswat_la-TDKernel.lo -MD -MP > -MF .deps/libswat_la-TDKernel.Tpo -c ../TDKernel.cxx -o > libswat_la-TDKernel.o >/dev/null 2>&1 > So this is unlikely to be a problem with Automake (as the flags specified at configure time have been passed correctly to the libtool invocation at make runtime, as you noted). Thus I suggest you try to report your issue to the libtool list instead, to see if they have more ideas. So save you time, I've already CC:ed the libtool list in this reply.
> I couldn't also find the -s option which would discard the symbols. Can > someone help me? > > Thanks, > Marcelo > > ps. I am using automake version 1.11.3 > And, for completeness, what autoconf and libtool versions? Regards, Stefano
