Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le samedi 13 février 2010 à 14:08 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > Files only in first set of .debs, found in package libgfshare-dbg
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > -rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libgfshare.so.1.0.3
> 
> Has anyone checked that gdb will succeed in finding debug symbols via the
> multiarch paths?  (I guess gdb handles these generically by prepending
> /usr/lib/debug to the real object path, but probably should be
> double-checked anyway)

If the development symlink is in the same directory as the runtime
library, I don’t think there’s any case where it wouldn’t work.

Still, we’d be better with switching to build ID based locations now, so
that there’s not even a need to ask that question.

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