[lug] gcore for rh 9

[Andrew Diederich]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> On my Fedora Core 2/KRUD it says gcore is provided by 
> gdb-6.0post-0.20040223.19, so it sounds like the gdb post is the right 
> package unless something has been rearranged over the release period.

For fun I grabbed gdb 5.3, ./configure; make just to see what it gave me.
While it built a gcore.o, it didn't build gcore.  There were actually a 
few gcore.c files about, so I went into each subdirectory to see what damage
I could do.

gdb-5.3/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base was the only place I could "make gcore" and
get any luck.  But the file is only about 12k, and doesn't seem to do
anything.

I'm beginning to think it's part of gdb, rather than a seperate executable,
like in Solaris.
$ gdb
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3post-0.20021129.18rh)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or 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.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".
(gdb) gcore
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb)

Has anyone used this before?

-- 
Andrew