Am Montag, den 19.05.2008, 09:08 -0500 schrieb Rodney Sparapani: > Thomas Weber wrote: > > On 16/05/08 17:30 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > >> On 16/05/2008, Jack Denman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You can't "install debug symbols". > >> You can in Debian. I'm not sure how they do it, but they do package > >> debug symbols separately for some libraries. You still need to get the > >> library source from a different package in order to use those debug > >> symbols. > > > > Packages are built with debugging symbols, then > > objcopy --only-keep-debug > > is used to move the debugging information into separate files and later > > into a separate package. > > > > The process is explained in more detail in objcopy's manpage, under the > > help for the above option. > > > > Thomas > > Hi Thomas: > > It's hard enough debugging code without putting up with this extra > nonsense. Is there any good reason why they do that? I was under the > impression that the debugging symbols create very little overhead.
Your impression is false. For octave3.0, the package itself has about 30 MB, the debugging symbols are about 120 MB. See also http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1/chapter06/aboutdebug.html Thomas _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
