Re: Debugging the backend?

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 18:25, Dmitry Tkach wrote:
> I am trying to debug the backend process with gdb... So, I set CFLAGS to '-g', ran make and installed the
> executable.The problem is, when I am trying to attach to it with GDB, it seems to have no source file information
> at all! It is debugabble - I can print variables, see function names and parameters etc... But, whatever I do, it
just
> does not know anything about the source (not even filenames, and line numbers)!

In gdb you can specify a directory from which to load source files, if
necessary.  I find that if you cd to the directory where the excutable
was compiled before running it, this is not usually necessary.

The gdb command to add a directory to the search path is "path
/path/to/dir", and the specified directory is added at the front of the
search path.

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