How to build debuggable executable on Solaris?

[Neal Norwitz]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:33:25 -0400, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Dbx seems okay with the executable (it doesn't warn about not finding
> any debug symbols), but "stop main" doesn't work as I remembered from
> ages ago:
> 
>     For information about new features see `help changes' To remove this
>     message, put `dbxenv suppress_startup_message 7.0' in your
>     .dbxrcReading python Reading ld.so.1
>     Reading libsocket.so.1
>     ...
>     Reading libCstd_isa.so.1
>     detected a multithreaded program
>     (dbx) b main
>     b: not found
>     (dbx) stop main
>     dbx: anachronism: Use 'stop change <variable>' or 'stop cond
>     <bool-expr>'. Event specifications without keywords will not be
>     accepted in future releases dbx: 'main' is a function or procedure,
>     expected variable (dbx) run

I think it should be:  stop in main

There is a way to tell dbx to use gdb commands.
I don't remember exactly what you need to do,
but you need to add a line to your .dbxrc file like:

	gdb on

http://wwws.sun.com/software/sundev/archive/developer/documentation/mr/READMEs/dbx.html

Neal