On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:12:10 +0100 Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> wrote: > I need your advise on how to deal with the way Debian packages the debug > version of Qt libraries. Debugging symbols exist in the libqt4-dbg package. When building your own code, it is just a case of ensuring that the flags are passed to the compiler, as normal. It has nothing to do with pkg-config. The Makefile is broken. Check the actual output using objdump and file. When building packages for Debian, it's down to debian/rules and arguments to dh_strip. Check the source of any number of dbg packages already in Debian. > I'm trying to package an existing software that includes a small Qt > application. The software is not using autotools or qmake but fixed > Makefiles. Building the release version is accomplished by lines like > CXXFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags QtCore) > LIBS += $(shell pkg-config --libs QtCore) > Building the release version of the sofware works fine. Those lines have no effect on whether the debug or release version is built. That comes down to the use of strip - and you always want the debug symbols in every build, let the Debian packaging sort out the rest. > Alternatively, when building a debug version, the above lines are > replaced by > CXXFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags QtCore_debug) > LIBS += $(shell pkg-config --libs QtCore_debug) Broken. There is no such .pc file for pkg-config, hence the errors. Don't build a "release" and "debug" version, it makes no sense. There is one version which gets stripped to retain the debug symbols in a useful manner. Fix the rest of the flags. In most cases, what you're thinking of as the "release" build may actually contain debug symbols which dh_strip would then put into a dbg package. What matters (the only thing which matters) is exactly what is passed to g++. When building for local development, always retain the debug symbols to make life easier. Then when building a package, let the normal Debian packaging rules retain the debug symbols until dh_strip is called to put the detached symbols into the -dbg package. Don't strip in the upstream build. Just don't. Ever. What you think of as a "release" build is just broken. > I have installed libqtcore4, libqt4-dev and libqt4-dbg in the build > environment. Looking at the files in these packages, I noticed that they > provide /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3 and > /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3.debug, but not > /usr/lib/libQtCore_debug.so.4.4.3. Also, there is Check the contents of libqt4-dbg with 'dpkg -L libqt4-dbg' - that's where the symbols live, exactly where gdb expects to find them. That's the only useful thing to do with debug symbols anyway - let gdb find them. /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.7.3 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.7.3 etc. > What should I do to specify that the debug versions of the libraries are > used? You don't. You build your software with debugging symbols and then gdb finds the debug symbols from the dbg packages directly. Packaging takes care of the rest. g++ -c -pipe -I../lib -g -I/usr/include/ Building with debugging symbols intact for later extraction via dh_strip or use directly in gdb $ file lib/libtextwidget.so.2.1.0 lib/libtextwidget.so.2.1.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID [sha1]=0xaca25b93845a468cc3f696cd7b796ada47d89226, not stripped Clearly indicates that the debug symbols are available. $ gdb ./bin/textwidget Reading symbols from /.../textwidget/bin/textwidget...done. (gdb) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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