no debugging symbols found when using gdb

Question

GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-37.el5) Kernal 2.6.18-164.el5

I am trying to debug my application. However, everytime I pass the binary to the gdb it says:

(         


        

Answer 1

The application has to be both compiled and linked with -g option. I.e. you need to put -g in both CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.