On 2010-09-15 12:23 +0200, Frédéric Boiteux wrote: > I'm trying to debug an own C program which dumps a core, inside libncurses5 > library. > I'd like to use gdb to debug my program, and so I've installed -dbg packages : > libc6-dbg, libncurses5-dbg, libstdc++-6.4.3-dbg (on a Debian Lenny system), > but if the libc6's > debug package is used by gdb, the libncurses5-dbg seems to be skipped : > [...] > > Does I have to redo the compilation before to test my program with > libncurses5-dbg debug library ?
No, but you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug so that the debug version of libncurses5 is picked up. > Or is there something I forgot ? Not really, the problem is that libncurses5-dbg ships a special debug version of the library and no detached debugging symbols, unlike other -dbg packages. This is fixed in Squeeze, though. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwxbmd9u....@turtle.gmx.de
