control: notfound -1 2.24-9ubuntu2.2 control: found -1 2.25-0experimental0 On 2017-07-13 13:14, Paul Smith wrote: > Package: libc6-dev > Version: 2.24-9ubuntu2.2 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > The GNU libc source package has a set of GDB pretty-printer macros written in > Python, which are of immense use when debugging code with GDB. In particular > there are a suite of pretty-printer macros for the pthread library that > display > the contents of mutexes, condition variables, etc. in a readable way. > > After building the GNU libc package they can be found for example: > > $srcdir/nptl/nptl-printers.py > $objdir/nptl/nptl_lock_constants.py > > (both are needed). The lock_constants file is generated during the build > process. > > It would be extremely useful if these files could be included in the dev > package, somewhere, so that we could take advantage of them while debugging.
This support is not available in glibc 2.24. It has been added in glibc 2.25 that is currently being packaged. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net