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Guia Artistica www.guiaartistica.com.ar -----Mensaje original----- De: Stefano Zacchiroli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Abril de 2007 06:58 a.m. Para: Ivan Jager; Debian Ocaml Maint ML CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information [ Ob: debian-ocaml-maint, look at the end of this mail ] tags 415194 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: > The bytecode files are currently compiled without debugging support. > This makes it hard to debug other code that might be called by it. Eg, > a function passed to List.iter. In the Debian folklore of libraries (at large, not OCaml-specific) that's a feature, not a bug. Indeed usually libraries do not contain debugging symbols and where is deemed appropriate an extra -dbg library package is built containing debugging information. > Since the standard libraries are compiled with debugging support it > seems like it would make sense to do the same for others. Yes, it > might be slightly slower, but anyone who cares about speed will > probably be compiling native code anyways. In the specific case of OCaml libraries I think we never discussed the issue and therefore I think the standard libraries just happen to be compiled that way (probably because they are compiled that way upstream) without any particular reason. So, at the moment I'm tagging this bug report as wontfix, but diverting the more general question of "should we mandate inclusion of debugging symbols in OCaml bytecode libraries"? to the debian-ocaml-maint mailing list. On one hand we should be consistent with the general library philosophy of not including debugging symbols in packages other than -dbg. On the other it is true that a user willing to have performances will use native code libraries, but is still true that native code libraries are not available everywhere ... Lenny-discussion time guys :) Thanks for your bug report. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
