We just got cross-gdb (using the emdebian package - woo) working. (The lenny package still needs fixingso its manpage doesn't conflict with the native gdb manpage - has that been fixed in squeeze or do I need to work out a patch?)
And then we found it was dead easy to make a -dbg version of a binary package. However to make this work you need to install the -dbg armel package on the build/devel (i386) machine so that the local cross-gdb can find it. However, dpkg-cross doesn't help you here because it find there are no libs or includes in the package so it installs nothing. It seems this (debugging) is a legitimate case for cross-nistalling binaries, so maybe dpkg-cross should help out here, in order to keep the process better-ordered than copying over the target binary -dbg package and manually extractiung the binary and copying it somewhere. debug binaries go in /usr/lib/debug/<normal path> so e.g. /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/foo I'm not sure where dpkg-cross should put these things - maybe /usr/<triplet>/debug (in pre-multi-arch world)? So, anyone else think this is a good idea? If so I might try and work up a patch to test. Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
