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Re: add -debuginfo packages


On 19/02/2012 12:41 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:42:20PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote:
On 18/02/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:47:48PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 21/08/2009 00:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
On 04/08/2009 13:58, Reini Urban wrote:
Rather than stripping our exe's and dll's I suggest to strip the debug
info into
seperate /usr/lib/debug/path/file.dbg and package them seperately in -debuginfo
packages such as with fedora.
FWIW, attached is the patch I've been using to do this, based on Reini's
patch, updated to address some of your concerns.

This can, as you suggested, strip the symbols to a location outside of ${D}
and create a single debuginfo package containing those symbols for each cygport.

I know that support for these packages in upset and setup has been rejected by
cgf, but it's still useful to me to keep the debuginfo for the packaged builds
of Xwin around.
I can see why it would be useful but why do we need to change anything?
Why can't you just release a xorg-server-debuginfo package and have
people install that when you want them to collect debugging?
If they have to install a different binary then the existing stack trace
is no longer useful. Especially if the "debug" package had different
optimization levels and makes a heisenbug disappear.
I think you misunderstand what is being discussed.

debuginfo packages contain the debugging information for a released
binary.  There is no "different binary".

Actually, if this was what you apparently thought it was, there would be
even less reason to make it some sort of special entity.
PEBCAK... I misread the above as proposing to release a binary+debuginfo package instead of shipping the symbols for an existing one. I have to say it's nice to be wrong on that, and that it was never even on the table.

Ryan


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