Re: Compiling all packages with debug information?
On 10/8/07, Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> wrote:
> As I'm running unstable I sometimes find bugs in applications.
> Now it would be very nice if there was some way to get the
> matching debug information for the packages, so gdb could print
> a better backtrace, or eg. show exactly which line segfaults.
Packages built yourself with noopt+nostrip (where supported) would
produce the better backtraces.
Ubuntu already creates debug symbols for their whole archive:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-September/000195.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptElfDebugSymbols
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/apt-get-debug-symbols
This would be a nice thing to have in Debian, especially moving dbg
packages to a separate archive.
There are some possible problems with this; for eg packages like
openoffice which are very big and far bigger with debug symbols.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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