[Bug binutils/27486] readelf: Warning: could not find separate debug file 'libc-2.32.so.debug'

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27486

--- Comment #3 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #2)
> Hi H.J.
> 
> > [hjl@gnu-cfl-2 cpu-rt-c]$ readelf  --dyn-syms /lib64/libc-2.32.so| grep
> > strchr
> 
> > I only want to displace dynamic symbols.  Why should readelf care the
> > separate debug file?
> 
> It cares because there may be information in the separate debug info files
> that is relevant to the query that is being carried out.  Ie in this case
> there may be dynamic symbols in the debug info files.

The symbol tables shouldn't depend on the separate debug info files.

> You can suppress this behaviour though.  Either by configuring the binutils
> with --enable-follow-debug-links=no or by adding the -wN or
> --debug-dump=no-follow-links options to the readelf command line.
> 

The info being asked doesn't exist in the separate debug info files.  A patch
is posted at

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-February/115568.html

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