Re: How to use -dbg packages (and specifically libncurses5-dbg) ?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Frédéric Boiteux <fboiteux@calistel.com> writes:
> It's what I would like to have, but in my gdb session, the symbols /
> data aren't available. When you start your gdb, do you have some info
> about gdb loading libncurses5 debugging symbols ?


(gdb) shell pidof nano
23506
(gdb) attach 23506
Attaching to process 23506
Reading symbols from /bin/nano...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libncursesw.so.5...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libncursesw.so.5.7...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libncursesw.so.5
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.11.2.so...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libdl-2.11.2.so...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.11.2.so...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00007f0d65f47ea0 in __read_nocancel () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
82      ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
        in ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S
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