My initial thoughts on this were to do what most other packages that generate debugging libraries do, which is to actually not generate debugging libraries specifically, but instead to generate separate symbol files, which also happen to live under /usr/lib/debug.
Most packages will make use of dh_strip to strip executables and libraries, but it seems that the gnat-4.1 package does not. If it did, then we could just add --keep-debug to its command line and it would automatically generate the symbol file and place it in the usr/lib/debug directory underneath the package build directory. But it seems that gnat-4.1 doesn't actually use dh_strip. The manpage for objcopy describes how to build the symbol file (see the section of its manpage for the --only-keep-debug option). I'll have to do some experimenting to see what it'll take to make use of that in the case of gnat-4.1. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
