From: Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:33:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git compile with debug symbols
Message-ID: <1393950801.57403.YahooMailNeo@web162903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtxbene6o.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Thanks David for the reply. I think I need to do more ground work of going through how to use gdb.
Basically I am java programmer and I was trying out to debug git source using eclipse CDT and as we do in java, I was trying out to set break point but failed with errors as "No line 396 in file "help.c"".
And using gdb too I end up with same error.

# (gdb) break help.c:396
# No line 396 in file "help.c".


Am I missing something.

thanks,
mpujari


On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:34 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
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/