Re: [gentoo-user] how to keep the souce for debugging under gentoo?

[fei huang]

On 9/4/06, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"fei huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  however, I found the source from /usr/portage/distfiles does not match the running instance, then I realized that the
> running executable is compiled from patched or altered version of source files. Is there a way to get the matching
> source?  if there exists a solution, it might be applied to all applications under gentoo that to be debugged, i think..

Try doing 'ebuild /usr/portage/xxx/yyy/zzz.ebuild unpack' (as root)
before running gdb to debug the program.
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thank you Graham, that's exactly what I want.. very helpful tip.

regards

daniel

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