Re: Debugging under Redhat 7.1

[Adam Fedor]

Gerrit Van Dyk wrote:

> Which gdb version should I use to debug under Redhat 7.1?
>
> I compile my application using "make debug=yes" and then try to debug it.
> The debugger comes back with the following message "not in executable
> format: File format not recognized".
> I am using the egcs compatible packages to compile and I am using gdb
> version 5.0rh-5.


You're probably trying to debug the script in the main directory that 
looks for the correct executable.  You can either do:

debugapp MyApp.debug

or

gdb MyApp.debug/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/MyApp




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