rpc.lockd segfault

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Jan 18 12:36:52 PST 2004


In the last episode (Jan 18), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > > Unfortunately that doesn't give any information.  You'll need to
> > > recompile rpc.lockd with GDB debugging symbols (add -ggdb to
> > > CFLAGS). See the developer's handbook on the website for more
> > > information about debugging program failures with gdb
> > > (specifically, how to obtain a useful backtrace).
> 
> > $ gdb /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
> 
> > How come no debugging symbols are found ?
> 
> > install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555   rpc.lockd /usr/sbin
>           ^^
> 
> This strips the debugging symbols.  Run gdb against the version of the
> binary in the obj/ directory.

If you add the -g flag to DEBUG_FLAGS instead of directly to CFLAGS,
that will tell the install target not to strip the final binaries (see
bsd.prog.mk).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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