Reference

debugedit(8)

Debuginfo editing helper

NAME

debugedit - Debuginfo editing helper

SYNOPSIS

debugedit [options] file

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the debugedit command, which can be used to edit debuginfo section of object files (either binaries or separate debug info files).

It is useful for producing consistent information in binaries for debugging regardless build location.

The command takes exactly one file argument and edits the file in-place.

-b, --base-dir=STRING

base build directory of objects

-d, --dest-dir=STRING

directory to rewrite base-dir into

-l, --list-file=STRING

file where to put list of source and header file names

-i, --build-id

recompute build ID note and print ID on stdout

-s, --build-id-seed=STRING

if recomputing the build ID note use this string as hash seed

-n, --no-recompute-build-id

do not recompute build ID note even when -i or -s are given

--version

print the debugedit version

Help options:

-?, --help

Show this help message

--usage

Display brief usage message

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

History

--build-id-seed since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --no-recompute-build-id since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --usage since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --version since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -n since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -s since Debian 11 (Bullseye).