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Bug#401385: This might not be as easy as I thought...



Ludovic Brenta writes:
> Kevin Brown writes:
> > That may be true, but developers aren't the only ones who might make
> > use of these files.  Anyone who gets a crash in an Ada application
> > could get a much better traceback (for filing a bug report) with
> > these files in place than without.
> > 
> > Independent of the potential issues described below, we should give
> > some serious thought to including the debugging files with the runtime
> > package.
> > 
> > It does bloat the package a bit, though.
> 
> The overriding reason is multilib.  We will make a separate -dbg
> package, and we will probably even move the static library to another
> package, too.  Better do it right the first time.
> 
> [...]

+1, as done for the libstdc++ library package.

I would like to see this work beeing done for 4.2 (as available in our
svn archive), but as a prerequisite we would need to have the gnat 4.1
patches ported forward to 4.2 (or even better submitted upstream).

  Matthias



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