On Tue, Aug 11 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:40:20PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> On 2009-08-11, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote:
>> >         So, we would still need to create   "/usr/lib/debug/"
>> >  . /full/path/to/lib_or_binary/ in either case, and instead of the
>> 
>> no. it would be /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/NN/NNNNNN.debug
>                                  ^
> Why the need for a hidden directory in a public location?
> What's wrong with /usr/lib/debug/build-id?
>
> I don't think the unnecessary obfuscation is warranted.

        Because that is where gdb looks for them.

        manoj
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