make glibc in debug mode

[mbuchoff]

Hi all. I'm new to this forum (and Linux pretty much).

I am currently working on the XBMC open source project. After running our software in Valgrind, I discovered that glibc's dlopen function has a memory leak. Although I have very little Linux experience, I have been a programmer for several years and would like to try my luck at this bug.

In order to fix this issue, I want to compile glibc in debug mode so that Valgrind can tell me exactly where the leak is and I can (try to) fix it. Can anyone give me some instruction on how to do this? According to glibc's help page, glibc changes slightly with each Linux distribution and so I should ask my questions here first.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Buchoff

[duff]

Try installing "libc6-dbg" first. That'll give you the debugging symbols you're after.

[mbuchoff]

Thanks for the help. Although certain errors are now more well-defined, those involving libc-2.5.so are still pretty cryptic. Do you know of any thing else I can try?