On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:57:52AM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > Op donderdag 04-06-2009 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Fridrich > Strba: > > Just install them side by side with the binaries, like > > something.dll.debug in the same directory as something.dll > > > > The gnu debug link information will tell gdb on win32 where to look for > > the symbols. > > > > Cheers > > > > Fridrich > > Sorry for the late response, but I prepared a patch for > mingw32-filesystem to add -debug subpackage support. Is it okay to > commit this?
Yes, but I think we should only commit this to Rawhide. > I've also added a patch for one of my packages to indicate the steps > needed for all mingw32 packages to get -debug subpackage support. It > basically consists of two extra lines. Got a patch for mingw32-example.spec? > One thing I noticed while preparing this is that there's an openSuSE > buildsystem project [1] which has basically forked all our work and > added more features and packages to it. I wonder why this fork was done > and why features (like this -debug subpackage support) haven't been > proposed upstream (to us) sooner? Several packages there also have their > ChangeLog stripped away so the history can't be viewed anymore.. Fridrich has posted about it on this list a couple of times I think. But yes, it'd be nice to unify the packages more. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
