Currently the section on "Debugging coredumps" only briefly mentions
relocatable binaries, then starts with an extensive subsection on how to
open cores generated by non-relocatable binaries. There is a subsection
about relocatable binaries, but it just contains some out-of-date
workaround without any context.
In this patch we completely replace this outdated and not very useful
subsection on relocatable binaries, with a much more extensive one,
documenting step-by-step a procedure that is known to work. Also, this
subsection is moved above the non-relocatable one. All our current
releases except for 2019.1 use relocatable binaries, so the subsection
about these should be the more prominent one.
Signed-off-by: Botond Dénes <bdenes@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200630145655.159926-1-bdenes@scylladb.com>
To the 'Debuggin Scylla with GDB` chapter. The '### Debugging
relocatable binaries built with the toolchain' subchapter is demoted to
be just a section in this new subchapter. It is also renamed to
'Relocatable binaries'.
This subchapter intends to be a complete guide on how to debug coredumps
from how to obtain the correct version of all the binaries all the way
to how to correctly open the core with GDB.
A documentation file that is intended to be a place for anything
debugging related: getting started tutorial, tips and tricks and
advanced guides.
For now it contains a short introductions, some selected links to
more in-depth documentation and some trips and tricks that I could think
off the top of my head.
One of those tricks describes how to load cores obtained from
relocatable packages inside the `dbuild` container. I originally
intended to add that to `tools/toolchain/README.md` but was convinced
that `docs/debugging.md` would be a better place for this.
Signed-off-by: Botond Dénes <bdenes@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20190924133110.15069-1-bdenes@scylladb.com>
