Bug #33252 Add the mysqld.debug to tarball packages
Submitted: 14 Dec 2007 22:07 Modified: 16 Jan 2009 10:07
Reporter: Harrison Fisk Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
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Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.52 OS:Linux
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

[14 Dec 2007 22:07] Harrison Fisk 
Description:
The RPM debuginfo package has a mysqld.debug which can be used with a core file generated from the default mysqld to debug the core file further.

According to Danny, this file is debug information stripped from the binary after being compiled with -g.

This file is different than mysqld-debug which is a server compiled with full debug (and is much slower in many cases due to the extra debug information).

How to repeat:
Try to debug a core file.  With the RPM you can use mysqld.debug to get a lot more information (such as line numbers, arguments passed, etc...) which is normally only available from a mysqld-debug core debug.

Suggested fix:
Create a mysqld.debug for tarball packages too.
[4 Apr 2008 11:40] Jonathan Perkin 
I have added -g to our internal build scripts so that the generated mysqld (and other binaries) will have debug symbols added.  This will be present in 5.0.60, 5.1.24-rc and 6.0.5-alpha.

Note that for tarball packages the default 'mysqld' will have symbols available, we do not need to generate a separate mysqld.debug as we do for RPM which strips binaries by default.
[12 Apr 2008 2:34] Paul DuBois 
Noted in 5.0.60, 5.1.24, 6.0.5 changelogs.

For binary .tar.gz packages, mysqld and other binaries now are
compiled with debugging symbols included to enable easier use with a
debugger.
[23 May 2008 14:19] Harrison Fisk 
It doesn't look like it is working.  I do not see debugging information in 5.0.60 Linux AMD64 binaries (mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.60-linux-x86_64-glibc23).
[23 May 2008 14:19] Harrison Fisk 
It doesn't look like it is working.  I do not see debugging information in 5.0.60 Linux AMD64 binaries (mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.60-linux-x86_64-glibc23).
[16 Dec 2008 10:07] Jonathan Perkin 
Harrison,

I think we covered all the packages now, do you still see any without the debug information?

Thanks.
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