On 30/03/14 04:00, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Mar 29, 2014 1:52 PM, "Steven Noonan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mar 29, 2014 1:36 PM, "Steven Noonan" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I think the directory Pacman is using for the split-out debug symbols >>>> is incorrect. This appears to be needed: >>> >>> Why do you think this? What are the symptoms you're seeing? I use debug >>> packages all the time and they work as expected. >> >> I've seen tools complain they can't find debug symbols or simply not show > any. >> >> What tools have you used successfully? perf, gdb, and oprofile all >> seem to look in the 'debug-id' directory, not in 'debug_id'... > > gdb and valgrind, mostly. I've not seen either complain about missing > symbols. >
I think this is an actual bug. I bet gdb/valgrind are finding the /usr/lib/debug/path/to/file symlinks and not using the .build-id path.
