On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:58 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:50:09PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hm, dh_shlibdeps prunes /usr/lib/debug when looking for ELF executables. > > > This was apparently done when adding support for split debugging symbols > > > files: see #215670. > > > > > > This looks like a bug to me, since /usr/lib/debug is used for "real" > > > unstripped libraries too. Just filed #461339 on debhelper. > > > > Hm, perhaps you should instead file a bug against any package (other than > > libc6) which uses /usr/lib/debug for real unstripped libraries. Shouldn't > > everyone use detached debugging symbols now, or is there really enough > > utility in building a separate debugging version libraries to warrant the > > additional user complexity of using them? > > I understand from Matthias that Python modules benefit noticeably from a > separate debugging build.
python core definitely does - the debug build adds instrumentation that has an overhead and is not included in the non-debug builds because of that. I'd expect the same macros to do this in python modules, though I don't know for sure. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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