Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>]

Fabrizio Polacco writes:
 > Yann Dirson wrote:
 > > Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables,
 > > not libs), and includes the libs symbols:
 > > 
 > 
 > But the real problem is that the sizes are ... unmanageable
 > the shared lib is half the size of the static one, while the .syms file
 > is double!
 > -rw-r--r--   1    2242044 Dec 13 19:20 libdb2.a
 > -rwxr-xr-x   1    1129332 Dec 13 19:18 libdb2.so
 > -rw-r--r--   1    5246976 Dec 15 13:26 libdb2.so.syms

Does gdb reads in the libs yours depends on ?  This might explain
that...

 > So I loose all interest in using .syms files instead of unstripped
 > static libs.

OK. Did you try objcopy(1) ?

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