Bug#516516: Provide all debug symbols
Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> the debug package doesn't help anyhow when inspecting core dumps. It would
>> be much useful if the package would provide the symbols for local
>> variables and thelike to get the full backtrace with gdb. That's also
>> what other debug packages of libraries do.
>
> The drawback of providing all symbols is that it makes gdb very slow to
> load all symbols, render it almost unusable.
Perhaps, the symbol file can be put in a non-standard location so that
gdb does not load it by default. And if it is really needed, the admin
just has to move or create a symlink to the file (or to load it explicitly
in gdb if it is possible)...
>> Quoting the discussion on #513341:
>>
>> Daniel Jacobowitz hat am Thu 05. Feb, 14:03 (-0500) geschrieben:
>>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:12:37PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>>>> But this doesn't work for core dumps. I would like to get more
>>>> informations, like local variables from core dumps. How can I get such
>>>> informations with the debugging library in /usr/lib/debug?
>>> Sorry, there's no way to do this with the current packages.
>
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