[petsc-dev] Apple sadness

[Satish Balay]

We [sean and I] have a better fix for this issue.

Basically we have to run dsymutil on the binary/.dylib - before the .o
files are deleted. This creates binary.dSYM dir - which has the debug
info - thats available for the debugger.

I've pushed a fix for libpetsc.dylib to petsc31/dev- so that part
works now.

However - when the application is built - for example - ex1.c, ex1.o
gets deleted aswell by our makefiles, so that part of the debug
symbols are still missing.  [we don't have a generic target here to
modify - so I'm not sure how to deal with it]

satish

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
> 
> > I have finally figured out that gdb will not read any symbols for source
> > that does not have the object file with it. So when PETSc deletes the
> > .o's after achiving, all I get is a stack. When I save the application .o
> > that I am running, at least I can see those symbols. Is this universal
> > on Mac. Can I fix it?
> > 
> > This has happened to me since Leopard. In fact, it was the first time I ever
> > emailed the petsc list :-) The fix came from Barry and comment out the line
> > in the makefile that deletes the temporary .o's
> > 
> > I believe the error was that there was no flag to stuff the debug objects in
> > the dynamic library. Was that right, Barry?
> > 
> > Sean
> 
>  Matt,
> 
>   Sean's understanding is my understanding. Here is my understanding
> 
> 1)  This is only a problem with shared libraries (with static libraries it
> finds the debug symbols).
> 2) If you don't delete the .o after making the shared library then it finds
> the symbols
> 3) my reading of the ld manual page is that the symbols SHOULD be put into the
> dylib; I do not understand why they are not, google searches never helped me
> resolve this issue
> 4) When I want to debug an application I use something like make ex1
> RM=/usr/bin/true and ex1.o is kept around so it can find the symbols for ex1
> 
>   So, try removing the line               ${RM} -rf
> ${INSTALL_LIB_DIR}/$$LIBNAME.tmp-petsc-shlib; \  from conf/rules and then make
> the shared library. Can you now find the symbols in the debugger? Is there a
> good permanent fix for this?
> 
>   Barry
>