How to use debug libraries on ubuntu

Question

My current problem is with libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, but I guess this problem is generic enough.

My application is crashing somewhere in the webkit code. My assumption is

Answer 1

In order to debug against dynamic libraries you can add the dgb gears with symbol and source distro packages as suggested. Then it's necessary to check if the compilation directories of the debug symbol table matches the paths of the installed source, if it's not you should mapping the paths in gdb. Following the commands to enable debugging of glibc

$ objdump -g /usr/lib/debug/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so | sed -n '/<.*>\s\+DW_AT_comp_dir/ {s/\s\+<.*>\s\+//; p;}' | sort | uniq
DW_AT_comp_dir : (indirect string, offset: 0x1127a): /build/glibc-OTsEL5/glibc-2.27/malloc
...
DW_AT_comp_dir : (indirect string, offset: 0xd139): /build/glibc-OTsEL5/glibc-2.27/stdio-common
DW_AT_comp_dir : (indirect string, offset: 0xef40): /build/glibc-OTsEL5/glibc-2.27/libio
$ ls -ld glibc-2.27/{stdio-common,libio}
drwxrwxr-x 3 fusillator fusillator 12288 feb 1 2018 glibc-2.27/libio
drwxrwxr-x 3 fusillator fusillator 4096 feb 1 2018 glibc-2.27/stdio-common
$ gdb ./hello
Reading symbols from ./hello...done.
(gdb) set substitute-path /build/glibc-OTsEL5/glibc-2.27 glibc-2.27
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x63e: file hello.c, line 10.
(gdb) run
Starting program: hello
Breakpoint 1, main () at hello.c:10
10 printf("hello world\n");
(gdb) s
_IO_puts (str=0x5555555546e4 "hello world") at ioputs.c:33
33 {
(gdb) backtrace
#0 _IO_puts (str=0x5555555546e4 "hello world") at ioputs.c:33
#1 0x000055555555464a in main () at hello.c:10