On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > > > I like the idea a lot, but why not to leave symbol files in /usr/obj, > > The application where this is most useful (and why we implemented it > originally) is the case where /usr/obj isn't available - for instance, > a binary installation other than where the source tree was built. If > you're going to keep /usr/obj around anyway then you can get most of > the benefit by just keeping the unstripped binaries / libs in there, > no? Not that easy, since you have to arrange to use libraries from obj/, by LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc.
I fully support the work to install symbol files, and it should go into /usr, might be /usr/lib/debug. Possibly, some change to gdb (config) is required.
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