I've just massaged glibc into using separate debug info. I do it in a rather terrible way; perhaps some of these should be supprted by dh_strip. Here they are:
1. I need to pass custom arguments to objcopy --only-keep-debug. Specifically, I'm removing every piece of debug info except for .debug_frame. This means no type information, line number information, et cetera - but very low disk space usage, low GDB startup times, and perfect backtraces through optimized C code. Right now I stick a replacement objcopy in the $PATH that adds a bunch of -R options. This is probably temporary. Someday the GDB startup time and memory usage will be fixed, and the disk usage is not a big deal if GDB is actually going to use the information. 2. I want all debugging binaries to go to libc6-dbg rather than having a libc6-i686-dbg package. This means a lot of sneaking around behind --dbg-package's back; I have to say --dbg-package=libc6-i686 and then move files from debian/libc6-i686-dbg/ to debian/libc6-i686/. Um, one reasonable solution might be to create a debian/libc6-i686-dbg package after all; another would be a new option to dh_strip; if I have to leave it the way it is, I won't shed too many tears. I'm testing the packages themselves now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
