Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le mardi 11 août 2009 à 10:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >>> Except you have not indicated how you (or debhelper) is going to >>> intercept ld to add the requisite arguments. >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2009/07/msg01229.html > > So the proposal is to add --enable-linker-build-id to CFLAGS? That is passed to the GCC build, so that from now on GCC will always pass --build-id to the linker. So you don't need to do anything if your package uses GCC (gcc/g++). > OK, I guess that would work. But you still have the advantage, > using the current debug link mechanism, of looking to see if you have > debug symbols for a given executable/library easily, without having to > compute potentially 3 checksums (depending on which algorithm was > selected at build time) and trying to match that (in multiple > directories). If you have the .ddeb package installed, you will have the debugging symbols installed :) > Can you point ot me the disadvantage of continuing to use what > dh_strip does now? It can still be used, but you will miss the advantages of using build ids. Emilio
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