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From: ebner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Ebner)
Subject: Problem with debugging PVM programs 
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Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:38:16 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.103816.16061@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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Hello PVM-world,

I'm working on an HP Apollo 715 and I'd like to debug 
a master and slave program ("minmax") linked with libpvm.a,
version 3.2.4.
Unfortunately, invoking GDB with the master program, displays:

  hpzenger6:/home/ebner/pvm3/bin/HPPA >> gdb minmax
  GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
   under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
  There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
  GDB 4.11 (hppa1.1-hp-hpux), Copyright 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc...

  End of file reading string table

  (gdb) 

The same "End of file" message occurs when I try to load the
symbols explicitly from the program file:

  (gdb) file minmax
  Reading symbols from minmax...End of file reading string table
  (gdb) 

The debugger has therefor no access to the symbols used in
the source code, which makes debugging almost impossible.
"minmax" was compiled with GCC:

          gcc -ansi -g -ggdb -I/home/ebner/pvm3/include -I/home/eb
  ner/DA/gent2/include -c minmax.c -o minmax.o
          gcc -g -ggdb -o /home/ebner/pvm3/bin/HPPA/minmax
  minmax.o /home/ebner/DA/gent2/lib/HPPA/agent.o /home/ebner/DA/ge
  nt2/lib/HPPA/protocol.o /home/ebner/DA/gent2/lib/HPPA/runtime.o 
  -static -L/home/ebner/pvm3/lib/HPPA -lm -lpvm3 /usr/lib/end.o 


Could anybody give me a hint on solving this problem?
Any comments appreciated. Thanks,

Ralf Ebner   (ebner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
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