Le dim 27 août 2006 09:51, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : > Pierre Habouzit on Saturday 26 Aug 2006 06:49 wrote: > > No, it's only used by gdb to translate the symbols. -dbg packages > > are just the symbols from the binaries that are stripped into > > separate files, to avoid bloating of the binaries. Then, IIRC, a > > GNUism is used to tell to gdb where those symbols are (when they > > are installed) that's all. > > Forgive me if my understanding is totally dumb. But then it is of no > use for a general KDE user to install. Most users won't know how to > run their crashing application using gdb and load the symbols. > > It would have been great to install it, if when the KDE application > crashed, and the KDE crash handler collected the crash information to > send to the developers, it would use the debug symbols from those > -dbg packages.
the -dbg packages are automatically used by the kde crash handler to generate the backtraces. So *please* use them when you report a KDE bug. a backtrace full of "(unresolved symbol)" is of no use, and we *will* discard such bug reports, as they are not usable. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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