Steve Gonczi wrote:
>This proves to be unexpectedly difficult to solve. > >I find it hard to fathom, that nobody at SUN runs dbx on the various usermode >components of the OS, >specifically the ztest usermode exerciser. > >I believe this forum proposes to be the right place to ask this question: > >Is there a working [easy] way to build dbx-debuggable userland components >without hacking the build environment? > >I was hoping to get a definitive answer from someone who does this on a daily >basis. > I feel your pain. I've been fighting this battle for a week. I do Solaris debugging on a daily basis, but only recently started working on the zfs userland components. I too am surprised that this isn't getting wider attention. (I should say that I don't think this problem is limited to the zfs userland components. I think it affect all userland code.) I hope someone comes up with an answer to your question because all I can do is offer more details about how I hacked the environment to get this to work. But I DID get it to work. If you're interested, I can give you all the steps I used (I left out the gory details in my earlier mail because I hoped that just setting the debug format to "dwarf" would do the trick). Let me know and i'll write them down (it's not THAT bad. It's a kludge, but it's an easy kludge to try.) In the meantime, I'm going to do what I can to raise the visibility of this problem. The bug that appears to be at the root of at least my dbx problems is 6823053. I'm going to raise the priority of it and add some comments to it. Lori
