On Wednesday 2009-04-22 07:33, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >* JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: >> I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to >> me, hmm, wouldn't it be nice if automake had default targets for >> installing symbols? >> >> For example, make install-syms could do objcopy --only-keep-debug on >> the binaries and libraries, and put the .debug files in >> /usr/lib/debug. > >What's the advantage over just installing binaries into $(bindir) >without stripping them?
I agree here. Moving the debug info into a separate file is what I only expect for a distribution's binary packages. And their respective build systems will DTRT to produce extra packages with said debug info. For example, lbuild/rpm on openSUSE is configured to strip foo's debug data and emit it into separate foo-debuginfo and foo-debugsource packages. foo can remain stripped for those not wishing to install debug info, but I do not see this separation being needed with manual installations.
