[Users] How to use Formaline -- symbol table/file error

[Erik Schnetter]

Bernard

I don't know why Formaline wouldn't output all thorns. There is no
mechanism that would store or output only some of the thorns. Did you
run out of disk space just now, so that the other tarballs couldn't be
written?

-erik

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 5:51 AM Bernard Kelly <physicsbeany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Roland. Thanks for the quick response.
>
> I tried running the executable using a parameter file that only included 'ActiveThorns = "Formaline"', as you suggested. This seemed to work, but the result was a new directory called 'cactus-source' that included only a handful of basic thorns:
>
> Cactus-source-ADMAnalysis.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-ADMBase.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-ADMCoupling.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-ADMMacros.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-ADMMass.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-CactusConfig.tar.gz
> Cactus-source-Cactus.tar.gz
>
> Does this mean that Formaline didn't store the other thorns, or that they have to be dug out some other way?
>
> Bernard
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 14:26, Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Bernard,
>>
>> > Follow-up thought: since gdb is a debugger, does this mean I should have
>> > compiled the original executable with debugging symbols? (Something I
>> > almost never do for a production executable.)
>> Almost certainly, yes. Though maybe not all off them but enough that
>> say "nm exe/cactus_sim_ET_2021_05_BC" reports something for
>> cactus_source (eg in my case nm exe/cactus_sim | grep
>> 'cactus_source$' -> 0000000006fdc1c0 D cactus_source). Gdb needs to be
>> able to resolve the "cactus_source" symbol into the actual address.
>> Otherwise it will be hard to find out that correct starting point for
>> the linked list of tar file fragments.
>>
>> If you can still run the the executable then running it with a minimal
>> thornlist that says
>>
>> ActiveThorns = "Formaline"
>>
>> will write out the source code tarball.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Roland
>>
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>
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