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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: reporting bugs is way to easy
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-08-30 14:15:38
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Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > all we need is a bit more clever gdb "bt" output parsing. if it contains
> > > stuff like "libkdecore (no debug symbols found)" etc, we can be sure that
> > > it hasn't been compiled with debug symbols.
> 
> Hopefully SuSE doesn't ship a gdb which says
> "libkdecore (keine Entwanzungssymbole gefunden)" ;-)
> 
> > Is it not universal that 'file' reports whether a file has been
> > stripped?  On my system file reports either 'not stripped' or
> > 'stripped'.
> 
> How do you find out the file name of the executable?
> 
You need it for gdb as well.
But I'm afraid it doesn't help as file doesn't say if the libraries
used are stripped and a crash in the file dialog would end with many
question marks.

Greetings, Stephan

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