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Bug 155148 - Generate a symbol file of mysqld binary before stripping
Summary: Generate a symbol file of mysqld binary before stripping
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-11-14 10:32 UTC by Morgan Collins
Modified: 2006-11-14 12:01 UTC (History)
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Description Morgan Collins 2006-11-14 10:32:15 UTC
In debugging mysql problems, mysql developers often request a user to "resolve the stack" from the mysqld.err file. This requires a symbol file or symbols in mysqld. The precompiled version of mysql ships with such a file. Currently the only way to get symbols in mysql is to compile with FEATURES="nostrip" which has to be done before the fact, and would invalidate any existing stack from mysqld.err.

It would be handy to have the mysql ebuild generate a mysqld.sym file before symbols are stripped and put it someplace like /usr/share/mysqld that a user could use to resolve the stack.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-14 12:01:57 UTC
FEATURES="nostrip" is needed for any debugging, don't really see why mysql should have special of stripping.