I’d like to trace some code in GIMP and therefore need GIMP with debug symbols enabled. I don’t remember whether I have enabled them during compilation. How to check that without recompiling the program?
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I’d like to trace some code in GIMP and therefore need GIMP with debug symbols enabled. I don’t remember whether I have enabled them during compilation. How to check that without recompiling the program?
You can use
fileandobjdumpon Linux. In particular,you can look at whether file says "stripped" or "not stripped"(under myUbuntu 20.04.1 LTS, whether an executable is compiled with-gor not showsnot strippedwithfilecommand. But the one with-g, showswith debug_info,in addition to that), and whetherobjdump --symsoutputs anything useful (for me, it says "no symbols" for a regular build).