%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ GDB GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on inside another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. Note that GDB is most effective when tracing programs and libraries that were built with debugging symbols and not stripped. &lfs74_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gdb-md5sum; Download size: &gdb-size; Estimated disk space required: &gdb-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gdb-time; GDB Dependencies Optional (for tests) and User Notes: Install GDB by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make To test the results, issue: make -k check. Now, as the root user: make -C gdb install Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories gcore, gdb and gdbserver libinproctrace.so /usr/include/gdb and /usr/share/gdb Short Descriptions gdb is the GNU Debugger. gdb-prog gdbserver is a remote server for the GNU debugger (it allows programs to be debugged from a different machine). gdbserver libinproctrace.so contains functions for the in-process tracing agent. The agent allows for installing fast tracepoints, listing static tracepoint markers, probing static tracepoints markers, and starting trace monitoring. libinproctrace.so