Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>> So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
>> libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
>> reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
>> are needed by .udebs loaded later on.
>>
>> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
>> such.
>
> If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary. It doesn't
Note that networking might not be enabled at the point gdb is needed.
placing the udeb/gdb statically linked binary on the CD might be helpful.
> If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb
> will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like
> a very strange package to have a udeb.
Probably a udeb with a statically linked binary would be a package that
might be somewhat useful.
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Regards,
EddyP
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