From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git compile with debug symbols
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:03:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtxbene6o.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9d6hsf3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:53:04 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to compile git with debug symbols and failed to do so
>> (basically I am a noob), can some one direct me to links or mailing
>> list (have searched but couldn't find) or doc's so that I can debug
>> git using gdb.
>
> git is compiled with debug symbols by default.
... but:
1) some Git commands are shell-scripts, on which you can't use gdb.
2) some Git commands fork other commands, and then you have to deal with
multiple processes (i.e. putting a breakpoint in a piece of code
executed by the subprocess won't work if gdb is running on the other
one).
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-04 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-04 15:46 git compile with debug symbols Mahesh Pujari
2014-03-04 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-04 16:03 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-03-04 16:33 ` Mahesh Pujari
2014-03-04 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-05 6:27 ` Mahesh Pujari
2014-03-04 16:00 ` karthik nayak
2014-03-04 17:53 ` Tanay Abhra
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