Re: Bug#649862: libextlib-ocaml-dev: should be compiled with debugging information (ocamlopt -g)
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> tags 649862 + pending
> thanks
>
> On 24/11/11 12:02, ygrek wrote:
> >Package: libextlib-ocaml-dev
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >Nativecode library is compiled without debugging information. This results in problems
> >when call chain contains functions from the library (including the cases when exception
> >is raised inside this library) - in some cases backtrace is wrong or not available at all,
> >see http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5074
The same argument could probably be made for any OCaml native library,
but the OCaml packaging policy currently specifies -g only for
bytecode libraries. Is there any reason not to extend that to native
code libraries too?
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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