debug

Void Linux packages come without debugging symbols, if you want to debug software or look at a coredump you will need the debugging symbols. These packages are contained in the debug repo. Install the void-repo-debug package to enable this repository.

To get debugging symbols for packages, activate the void-repo-debug repo. Once enabled, symbols may be obtained for package by installing package-dbg.

# xbps-install -S <package>-dbg

The xtools package contains the xdbg utility to retrieve a list of debug packages including dependencies for a package.

$ xdbg bash
bash-dbg
glibc-dbg
# xbps-install -S $(xdbg bash)