Bug#616024: ghostscript: please provide debugging package
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:39:50PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>>
>> I'm experiencing segfaults with ghostscript (using it from epstopdf or
>> directly on eps files) and would like to provide a meaningful backtrace.
>> But as there's no -dbg package that means I have to rebuild it
>> completely with -g and -O0. It'd be nice to have the debugging symbols
>> somewhere.
>
> Help much appreciated here.
>
> I do understand that a -dbg package is essentially a rebuild without
> optimizations and without stripping. But I have no expecience in this, so
> could use a pointer to some guidelines of whatminimal pieces are needed to
> extract and include in that -dbg package and where to put it (I believe I
> saw somewhere that there's a trick of putting -dbg libs in a subdir which
> makes it extend (not replace) the normal package and get used if available).
I have some tricks, and I will implement for you using cdbs...
Bastien
>
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