On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:11 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 26), Martin Moeller said: > > I have a rather general question on debugging. I'm experiencing some > > problems with some programs on FreeBSD 5.0. Because I'm quite a unix > > newbie, I can only write to some mailinglists to ask if somebody > > knows what to do. > > > > But I would like to take a few steps to solve my problems on my own. > > I read something about gdb and kernel debugging, but find that > > somehow disturbing. So I would like to ask a very *stupid* newbie > > question: > > > > I can run a program within gdb, but I don't see the program's source > > code. I assume this is meant with debug symbols? How can I compile a > > program with those debug symbols? > > If it's your program, recompile and link with the -g commandline switch > added. If it's a base FreeBSD program (or port), edit the Makefile and > add a line reading "DEBUG_FLAGS=-g" (this will compile with -g and also > no strip the debugging symbols when the binary gets installed).
Does this work for the kernel? I'd read that the kernel strips symbols anyway. If i put makeoptions DEBUG=-g in my kernel config (as shown in LINT) will I still get the symbols? Thats for 4.x, what about 5.0 is that different? Thanks, Tim _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
