RE: gdb session

["Davide Viti" <davide.viti@siemens.com>]

> The symbols are loaded from the binary. You should compile the udeb you
> wish to debug yourself (with debug information),

I tried to run "make main-menu" in the chroot sid environment and had
problems with gcc3.3.something
inside woody (gcc 2.95.4) I had to fix a couple of include paths and I
managed to get the object files but had problems when linking because I
don't have libdebconfclient and I don't know how to build it

> Then run the installer and attach gdb to the running process. Perhaps you
have to
> insert some delay into the udeb's postinst code so that you have enough
> time to attach and set breakpoints.

> Attach like this gdb $UDEB $PID, where $UDEB is the unstripped
> executable (gdb loads symbols from it) and $PID is the process id of the
> running process.

I _think_ I'm not that far from it....
thanx for your help Sebastian
maybe somebody on this list will have some spare time to send me such a
log... please!

ciao

d.