Re: RFC: strip --strip-nondebug

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Elena,

> Nick, cool. Have you tried using gdb with the separate debug info
> resulting from your command? It should work transparently, once you
> set the debug directory, if needed.
>
> (gdb) help set debug-file-directory
> Set the directory where separate debug symbols are searched for.
> Separate debug symbols are first searched for in the same
> directory as the binary, then in the `.debug' subdirectory,
> and lastly at the path of the directory of the binary with
> the global debug-file directory prepended

Apparently not :-(  Is there a good way to watch gdb try to find debug
information and find out what is wrong ?

Cheers
        Nick