Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Fabrizio Polacco writes: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, > > not libs), and includes the libs symbols: > > > > But the real problem is that the sizes are ... unmanageable > the shared lib is half the size of the static one, while

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-15 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Yann Dirson wrote: > > Correction: it works now (probably a compilation option that wasn't > used at the time). > > Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, > not libs), and includes the libs symbols: > aha, but shared libs are executable files, so I succeeded buildin

Re: How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Fabrizio Polacco writes: > Hi folks! > > I remember someone suggesting to tetach debugging symbols from libraries > to package them separately on a -dbg binary package. I think the -dbg package contain the unstripped libs, and not only the symbols. There would be a way of separately providin

How to detach debug symbols from libraries

1997-12-09 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Hi folks! I remember someone suggesting to tetach debugging symbols from libraries to package them separately on a -dbg binary package. * What is the way to do that? * How can a detached symbol table be used to debug a program? * Can such table be used both for shared and static libs or should I