[MPlayer-users] Segfault core dump over innocently missing GLX

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 05 August 2007 at 14:33, Robert Bradbury wrote:
> On 8/5/07, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This bug report is worthless, you need to have MPlayer compiled with
> > debug symbols if you wanna have a readable backtrace.
> >
> 
> Yes, but *most* people working with "public" Linux distributions don't even
> have the source, much less binaries compiled with debug symbols.  I took the
[...]
> I believe I have run across discussions that there is a way to compile C
> programs with debug symbols being kept in a separate file (but I don't know
> how one does this [2]).  I may have also seen some suggestions that Ubuntu
> is going to be moving towards a system where there is an optional part of
> the package which contains the debug symbols.  Given the case above the
> second part of debugging on the user's part would be to install the mplayer
> debug symbol package and reproduce the stack trace using it.  However even
> if this were available for Ubuntu it would be questionable whether other
> Linux users could use it.
> 
> It would help significantly if the mplayer developers would setup
> configuration options which produced this type of system (a *static* binary
> and/or debug symbols in a separate file [3]).  Then it could be incorporated
> into all Linux distributions.

Something like this is already done in Fedora. We have <name>-debuginfo
packages which contain the debug symbols for package <name>. Granted, it
still requires you to install the -debuginfo packages for every dependent
library, but it's possible and it will be improved in future Fedora versions.

Well, it doesn't solve your problem if you're not using Fedora, though.

Regards,
R.

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