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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] separate debug information
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:43:38
Message-Id: 200404021343.34024.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] separate debug information by "Olivier Crête"
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4 On Friday 02 April 2004 13:35, Olivier Crête wrote:
5 > Hi,
6 >
7 > I actually have a patch (in bug #45756) that does the job.. But there
8 > are two problems which have thus far prevented me from pushing more on
9 > this, first I experience bizarre brokenness with gdb 6.x (#45756)..
10 > And second, binutils<2.14.90.0.8 only copies the debug section, but
11 > not the symbols into the debug file. So using the currently stable
12 > binutils, we have to use strip -g (and it procudes empty .debug files
13 > if -g is not in the cflags) so its not that useful without using the
14 > ~arch binutils (and being able to fully strip the executables).
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16 I've got gdb-6, but have not actually used it. That it only works with
17 testing for now is not a big problem for me.
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19 > Also, I'd like to try to see if we could have a features where the
20 > sources are kept for reference like redhat/fedora does with its
21 > -debuginfo rpms. I'll check how redhat does it and if we can do
22 > something similar when I come back from my vacation...
23
24 Basically it would require that the sources are not removed
25 from /var/tmp/portage, and that users actually get read access to this
26 directory.
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28 Paul
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Re: [gentoo-dev] separate debug information "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>