Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?
Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Hendrik Sattler <debian@hendrik-sattler.de> writes:
> > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams:
> >> Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg
> >> packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy?
> >
> > You essentially need to build all library packages 2 times, then.
>
> Actually, you don't. See the features of dh_strip introduced at debhelper
> level V5. And of course you can do the same thing by hand.
>
> gdb will read the resulting detached debugging symbols automatically.
Did you ever try to debug an application compiled with optimizations?
No, either you build an optimized version (-O2) or you build a debug version
(-g). If you want to debug what was coded, you better compile without
optimizations.
HS
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