Automatically fetching Build ID from remote libraries and resole them locally?
Norbert Lange via Gdb <[email protected]>
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Hello, I am mostly remote debugging, and I often have mismatches from the remote binaries and the local build environment (typically this makes thing worse than having no debug info) This can include the app themself, but most commonly its slightly different builds of libraries. Right now I can pick between setting up a sysroot path, or DL the (stripped) libraries from the target. Neither is optimal. If your sysroot is compromised of several builds, its also not feasible to have all combinations of them around. Build-Ids already solve those problems on a local gdb session. Would it be possibly to use the benefits on remote sessions aswell? ie. DL only some ELF headers or remotely inspect the Build-ID, then lookup and resolve the matching library and debuginfo in the debug-file-directory database. Potentially transfer the whole library from the target if that fails. Such a scheme would make connection to a remote target rather foolproof, and allowing other stuff like manually loaded libraries (no valid filename) to work aswell. Norbert