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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: DDB: no symbols
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.085803.2618@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 08:58:03 GMT
- References: <pogyk.726523568@unixg.ubc.ca> <CGD.93Jan8133338@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
- Lines: 19
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- In article <CGD.93Jan8133338@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
- >In article <pogyk.726523568@unixg.ubc.ca> pogyk@unixg.ubc.ca (Pogy Kurniawan) writes:
- >>Hello folks, Well I applied all patches x19,45,47 recompiled the kernel.
- >>Rebooted, and lo and behold it worked(for me this was a surprise)
- >>BIG BUG it reports DDB: no symbols. What is this and how can I clear it up.
- >
- >you've gotta run "dbsym 386bsd" on the kernel...
- >
- >this creates the ddb symbols that it needs...
- >
- >this isn't really documented, and should probably be done automatically
- >somehow, but alas, i know not how... 8-)
-
- The best way is probably to test if "-DDDB" is included in the CFLAGS
- in /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 and if so, run "dbsym 386bsd" right
- after building the kernel.
- --
- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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