In release mode we currently discard windows .pdb files. This is good because it keeps the size of the jre down but perhaps we should place the .pdb files for jre/bin/*.dll in the hdk/ lib directory and package them in our release HDKs?
On linux we could also create smaller .so files (quite a lot smaller in some cases!) by stripping them but maintain debug capability by creating associated .debug files. See: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_17.html#SEC166 Something like: objcopy --only-keep-debug $dll $hdk/lib/$dll.debug strip --strip-debug --strip-unneeded $dll objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$hdk/lib/$dll.debug $dll so gdb can pick them up[0]. Do people think this is a reasonable idea? Regards, Mark. [0] Probably with the help of an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting
