i did write firstprog.c with easy to say hello world! 10 times now i wanted to see it with gdb

i use : gdb -q ./a.out

in the book what im reading there stands after the: gdb -q ./a.out ->

"using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1"

at me comes: "Reading symbols from /home/blub/booksrc/a.out...(no debugging symbols found)...done."

and thats what i not understand!

sry for my bad english i try to get better every day and i will and sry for these easy and nooby question but i didnt find the answer now for 4 days in the internet or i searched wrong!

edit: if u need fotos or something tell i try to give directly!

thank you very much for reading it and i hope u can answer and help me!

It just means that the debugging symbols were not included in the file. Recompile with the -g option which directs the compiler to include them. It will then be able to list the source file name and line of a bug, and gdb will be able to access those files to display some context information.

Now the base shared libraries will not have debugging symbols. This should be a problem as the application object file will (with the -g). To get the debugging symbols with the shared libraries you usually have to go to getting the development libraries instead - then, rather than using the shared libraries, you use the development libraries which are object libraries, and can include the debugging symbols.

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