Bug 155148

Summary:	Generate a symbol file of mysqld binary before stripping
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Morgan Collins <sirmorcant>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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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.