Bug#33536: huge libc-dbg package (32MB deb, unpacks to 120+ MB)
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:02:16 -0800, Joel Klecker wrote:
>>Package: libc0.2-dbg
>>Version: 2.0.110-0.1
>>
>>I am forwarding a message from Roland McGrath, accompanied with my own
>>comments. It's really his reported bug, but he doesn't have time to
>>learn the BTS, so I'm submitting it.
>>
>>I have to agree with Roland here on both points. Has there been
>>thought to creating a separate libc-profile (without debugging
>>symbols), and/or a libc-dbg without symbols (but with a frame
>>pointer)?
>
>I must admit that I don't know what $(libc)-dbg is supposed to be for either.
>
>There is a separate $(libc)-prof[ile], but it isn't stripped. I am
>changing this now. Since we don't build configured with
>--enable-omitfp, I guess $(libc)-dbg is unnecessary, so I am removing
>the generation of it.
Can you then please leave enough debug symbols in libc.so to get a
backtrace with names? -gdwarf-2 -g1 should do the trick. (DWARF is
the most compact debug format.)
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