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Bug#516516: Provide all debug symbols



Hello Aurelien,

Aurelien Jarno hat am Sun 22. Feb, 03:45 (+0100) geschrieben:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:23:13AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Package: libc6-dbg
> > Version: 2.9-0exp2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.

Gdb can look in different directories for debugging informations. Can you
provide two versions: the current and a full (fat) version? Then I could
“set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug/fat” and get a slow and verbose
gdb output. Is this possible? Do you think it's useful?

Regards, Jörg.
-- 
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build bigger and better idiot—proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
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