Re: Error when running dh_dwz (actually an error when running dwz(1))
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:28 PM Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 09.07.19 21:54, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > Dear -devel list,
> >
> > Looks like dh_dwz was recently added into debhelper and it is causing some
> > FTBFS on one of my packages. It could be a bug of dwz itself but I'm looking
> > for some help inside Debian first.
> >
> > Please try to build package marisa from its git packaging repo
> > (
> > https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team/marisa/commit/f5ff598466266b230d68c9db9f8e31281604b7a6
> > ). The following error will pop up when dwz is called:
> >
> > =================
> > [...]
> > dh_dwz
> > dwz: debian/ruby-marisa/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ruby/2.5.0/marisa.so: Found
> > compressed .debug_aranges section, not attempting dwz compression
> > dh_dwz: dwz -q -- debian/ruby-marisa/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
> > gnu/ruby/2.5.0/marisa.so returned exit code 1
> > make: *** [debian/rules:30: binary] Error 1
> > dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned
> > exit status 2
> > =================
> >
> > I don't have much experience of dealing with debugging symbols so any hints
> > would be appreciated.
>
> dwz currently doesn't handle compressed debug sections. There is some
> discussion, if dwz should decompress, do it's work and compress it again.
> However until then, don't use compressed debug sections. Apparently these are
> turned on by the upstream build system. debhelper maybe could warn about
> compressed debug sections in general. Would would you want to have those anyway?
> The packages are compressed, and you shouldn't care about the on-disk space
> when debugging.
>
> There's also discussion, about errors:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24766
> Apparently the RPM based helpers ignore the return value of dwz, and leave the
> debug symbols unhandled. Again, debhelper could warn about such packages when
> built in compat12 mode.
Now with golang-1.19, all Go packages ftbfs with
dwz: Found compressed .debug_aranges section, not attempting dwz compression
Could the debhelper ignore the dwz error? Or can a debhelper addon
(e.g. dh-golang) be allowed to override dh_dwz globally?
--
Shengjing Zhu
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