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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:48:47
Message-Id: yu9y5yqwtsc.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ? by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
4 >
5 >> 2011/8/18 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>:
6 >>> /usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as
7 >>> directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64.
8 >>>
9 >>> For example
10 >>>
11 >>>    ajglap lib64 # /bin/pwd
12 >>>    /usr/lib64/debug/usr/lib64
13 >>>    ajglap lib64 # du -s * | sort -n | tail -10
14 >>>    34020       mesa
15 >>>    53148       gstreamer-0.10
16 >>>    155992      icedtea6
17 >>>    161360      llvm
18 >>>    208932      qt4
19 >>>    304016      xulrunner-devel-2.0
20 >>>    308880      xulrunner-2.0
21 >>>    618408      firefox
22 >>>    669000      libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.7.2.debug
23 >>>    1087848     libreoffice
24 >>>    ajglap lib64 #
25 >>>
26 >>> Is this correct?  My system is ~amd64
27 >>
28 >>
29 >> Do you have the splitdebug [1] FEATURE enabled?
30 >>
31 >> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
32 >
33 > Bingo.
34 >
35 > If I drop this feature (I turned it on for tracking a bug) will the
36 > /usr/lib64/debug tree go away or must I delete it manually.
37 >
38 > Also are there any other large subtrees I need to purge?
39 >
40 > thanks for the help.
41 > allan
42
43 No need to answer these queries. Everything is explained in [1]
44 above.
45
46 thanks again,
47 allan