On 21/06/2012 13:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:24:36AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> Attached is a first draft of a patch to support split debuginfo packages >> automatically in cygport. I'm looking for comments and suggestions, >> particularly on the following: >> >> 1) I propose adding a Debug category for all -debuginfo packages. >> >> 2) This places the debuginfo from e.g. /usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dll into >> /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dbg. Unfortunately, when gdb finds >> library dependencies, they show up as e.g. >> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/cygfoo-X.dll instead of as in /usr/bin, causing >> gdb to not find the debug file. There are at least three solutions to this: >> >> a. Fix (cygwin or) gdb to use /usr paths over /cygdrive/c/cygwin paths; > > Why is this necessary? The path to the debuginfo file is supposed to be > in the executable. cygwin1.dll doesn't use cygdrive.
The .gnu_debuglink section is supposed to contain a filename, not a pathname. It's up to the debugger to work out where the file is. [1] http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
