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Re: Location of vmlinux debuginfo file

From: Mike Mason <mmlnx at us dot ibm dot com>
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:50:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Location of vmlinux debuginfo file
References: <C56DB814FAA30B418C75310AC4BB279D6D89F3@scsmsx413.amr.corp.intel.com>

I plan to look into this and submit a patch once I get a couple other things off my plate. I'll address the command line option as well.

Mike

Stone, Joshua I wrote:

On Friday, August 11, 2006 5:54 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com> writes:

By default, the SLES 10 kernel debuginfo package puts its vmlinux
file in /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`.  [...]

A patch to support this would be welcome.  It may involve modifying
the "debuginfo_path" variable in tapsets.cxx, or might involve
lower-level elfutils changes.

- FChE


If someone addresses this, it might also be good to make a command-line
option for the debuginfo location, as per bug #2151.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2151

Josh

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