Debuginfo for Edgy

Ben Collins ben.collins at ubuntu.com
Tue Sep 26 15:13:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 15:19 +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet (RPT) wrote:
> >> I tried it with a custom build kernel and it works fine.
> >> Without the -debug package, systemtap complains about the absence of the 
> >> vmlinux file altogether. But I think that the vmlinux provided in the 
> >> -debug package don't have debuginfos... Possible?
> >> -jec
> > 
> > That's correct. The main reason is because I haven't added the code
> > needed to strip it from all the modules and vmlinux files for the main
> > linux-image package. I'll see if I can get this done today for the next
> > kernel upload.
> 
> Any news on this front? I tried today with the latest Edgy and SystemTap 
> is not working still saying that DWARF debug infos is not present.
> -jec

Yeah, I need to actually build the kernels with debug info. I'll see if
I can get this done soonish before edgy release.





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