On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:35:57AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > Is there anyway that you can (easily) build a particular server with > debugging symbols included? This is not crucial time wise (ie, it can > wait untill you are less busy with slink:-), but I'm really not > interested in the prospect of trying to download the whole bloody > source package....:-/ I definitely want to build debugging versions of the X libraries, but as yet I don't know how to do it. The makefiles for X are byzantine. Debugging symbols would definitely be useful for X servers as well -- we could probably help out the upstream guys a great deal if we could track down some of the problems for them. But I cower in fear at the thought of how large those servers would be. As it is, those packages run 800k to a megabyte each, and the SVGA server, which most people use, is something like 1.2 megs. I don't know yet if it would be worth it to package xserver-*-dbg officially. Maybe, if I learn how to make them, I could just store them at the X Strike Force page. Debugging X servers is, I am sure, not for the faint of heart. But I do want to get debugging versions of the libraries soon. As soon as I can figure out how. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of human Debian GNU/Linux | stupidity. branden.robinson@ibm.net | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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