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Re: Whence /usr/lib/debug?



* Paul Wise:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Florian Weimer<fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>>  Separate debug information objects [name?] must be installed under
>>  /usr/lib/debug.  The file name must be the result of calling
>>  realpath() on the path to the actual DSO containing code, prepended
>>  with the string "/usr/lib/debug".  Separate debug information
>>  objects must not be provided for static libraries under
>>  /usr/lib/debug.
>
> If anything is added to policy I think the wording should allow for
> multi-arch too, since that is apparently coming soonish.

As long as the dynamic linker keeps working roughly the same way, this
will allow to locate shadow debugging information for any DSO.


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