compiling glibc from source with debug symbols

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I need to compile glibc from source with debug symbols .

Where do i specify the '-g' option for this
How do i later make a sample code link to this particular glibc rather than the one installed on my system?

If you are not familiar with compilation of *Glibc* I would avoid doing that. If you only need the debug information of *glibc*, install the appropriate packages providing it, e.g. `libc6-dbg` on Debian or Ubuntu... — Basile Starynkevitch, Apr 13 '12 at 10:26
That wouldnt help because i need to modify some of the files and check how they are working. — woodstok, Apr 13 '12 at 10:36
The hard part is how to actually use it afterwards: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56810/how-do-i-start-threads-in-plain-c Good luck with that! :-) — Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事, Sep 22 '18 at 03:59

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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I need to compile glibc from source with debug symbols

You will have hard time compiling glibc without debug symbols. A default ./configure && make will have -g on compile line.

How do i later make a sample code link to this particular glibc rather than the one installed on my system?

This is somewhat tricky, and answered here.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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`-g` apparently comes from: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=Makeconfig;h=751e9ffa32149ba8854cc6fb7404a5902305dc37;hb=HEAD#l341 in 2.21 – Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事 Jun 06 '15 at 21:35
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No. At least not for compilation of files comprising the dynamic linker-loader (`ld.so[.new]`). Here's the captured invocation I got for one of them: `gcc dl-reloc.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline -O2 -Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -fstack-protector-strong -march=x86-64 -pipe -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -fno-stack-protector -DSTACK_PROTECTOR_LEVEL=0 -ftls-model=initial-exec -I…`. There are _symbols_ in the resulting executable, but not full-fledged debug info one gets with `-g` (as can easily be seen with `dwarfdump` or by the mere size of it). – Vladislav Ivanishin Apr 22 '19 at 20:33

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 13 '12 at 11:34

It is probably a matter of configure tricks. First, try configure --help and then, either configure --enable-debug or perhaps configure CC='gcc -g' or even configure CFLAGS='-g'

For your sample code, perhaps consider playing LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD tricks (assuming linking to dynamic library).

But be very careful, since the Glibc is the cornerstone of Gnu/Linux like systems.

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