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OM9dSDJn

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Registered: 2014-11-22

Posts: 5

Firefox debug symbols

Hi, I've run into a firefox bug, and I was trying to debug it. However, I'm unable to find debug symbols for firefox:

- the -debug package does not exist
- debuginfod-find does not turn up anything.

It seems like firefox's pkgbuild specifically disables debug symbols. Is there a reason for this? Can debug symbols be enabled?

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Firefox debug symbols

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41994 , It seems the symbols are uploaded to mozilla at buildtime so they can be used for crashreports .

Check https://symbols.mozilla.org/ and https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org … erver.html .

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OM9dSDJn

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Registered: 2014-11-22

Posts: 5

Re: Firefox debug symbols

I see, thanks! Looks like the Mozilla symbol server predates debuginfod and so can't be used with the debuginfod infrastructure

The GDB script is helpful though!