553365 - sort out NSS stabs + dump_syms issue on 64-bit builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Currently dump_syms on Linux has a bug where it fails to dump stabs symbols from 64-bit binaries. Unfortunately NSS has -gstabs hardcoded into its makefiles:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/coreconf/Linux.mk#120

so if we enable Breakpad on 64-bit Linux builds, we won't get usable Breakpad symbols for NSS.

We either need to fix the symbol dumper or get NSS to obey our debug symbol preference.

Comment 1

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

My patches at:
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/jblandy_mozilla.com/breakpad-mq/
fix this problem --- specifically, abstract-stabs.patch (which depends on the earlier patches in the series). These have been submitted to Google for review.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Looks like that all landed, so we should be ok.