Review Request 125664: bug 327760. user will be notified if the debug symbols are missing

[rishabh gupta]

> On Oct. 17, 2015, 5:30 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > This assumes the project is using cmake.
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> > Would it be possible to check in the executable if the symbols are available?
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> Sven Brauch wrote:
>     In principle it's easy, e.g. `readelf -S /usr/lib/libpng.so  |grep debug_info`; one would just need to find a more elegant way to do this.
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> rishabh  gupta wrote:
>     i tried this but there is no such thing as debug_info or debug .  even nm -gC  doesn't list any information about  debug symmbols
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> Milian Wolff wrote:
>     I'd actually prefer we go the other way around and reuse the information we get from GDB. Afaik it notifies us already about shared libraries that are missing debug symbols, and we should show that information somewhere to the user.
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> Kevin Funk wrote:
>     @Rishabh: Care to further work on that? See Milian's comment for hints.

i tried but couldn't figure out how what milian suggested can be done .Outside kdevelop if a program is started in gdb it does tells about the debugging symbols but i don't know how the same information can be shown to the user if the program is started inside kdevelop.


- rishabh


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On Oct. 16, 2015, 5:13 p.m., rishabh  gupta wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 16, 2015, 5:13 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop, Aleix Pol Gonzalez and Milian Wolff.
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> Bugs: 327760
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327760
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> Repository: kdevelop
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> Description
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> code will check if the project compiled is complied with debug symbols or not .if it's not compiled with the debug symbols user will be notified about it
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> Diffs
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>   debuggers/gdb/gdbconfigpage.h 6a877d2 
>   debuggers/gdb/gdbconfigpage.cpp 6fd1c3a 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125664/diff/
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> Testing
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> builds 100%
> testing done
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> Thanks,
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> rishabh  gupta
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