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If `hell' was a complicated program, you would certainly want to test and debug it before installing it on your system. In the above section, you saw how the libtool wrapper script makes it possible to run the program directly, but unfortunately, this mechanism interferes with the debugger:
burger$ gdb hell 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 no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.16 (i386-unknown-netbsd), (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. "hell": not in executable format: File format not recognized (gdb) quit burger$
Sad. It doesn't work because GDB doesn't know where the executable lives. So, let's try again, by invoking GDB directly on the executable:
burger$ gdb .libs/hell trick:/home/src/libtool/demo$ gdb .libs/hell 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 no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.16 (i386-unknown-netbsd), (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048547: file main.c, line 29. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/src/libtool/demo/.libs/hell /home/src/libtool/demo/.libs/hell: can't load library 'libhello.so.2' Program exited with code 020. (gdb) quit burger$
Argh. Now GDB complains because it cannot find the shared library that `hell' is linked against. So, we must use libtool in order to properly set the library path and run the debugger. Fortunately, we can forget all about the `.libs' directory, and just run it on the executable wrapper (see section Execute mode):
burger$ libtool gdb hell
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 no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.16 (i386-unknown-netbsd), (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048547: file main.c, line 29.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/src/libtool/demo/.libs/hell
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc40) at main.c:29
29 printf ("Welcome to GNU Hell!\n");
(gdb) quit
The program is running. Quit anyway (and kill it)? (y or n) y
burger$
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