Hello, >> By the way... from the name it looks like I have the debugger (or does the >> _dbg suffix mean something else)? > Yes and no. It appears that the rpm process strips away the debugging > symbols and places themin a separate rpm. How to use that is beyond me. So > while the executable says it has debugging symbols (because it was > compiled that way); rpm undoes it all, sigh. I am using the binary package and not the rpm. Cheers, -- Gregory