On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Janek Kozicki <[email protected]> wrote: > For instance I have sawfish-dbg package installed also, but still the > executable is stripped: > > $ file `which sawfish` > > /usr/bin/sawfish: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, > stripped > > anyone got any ideas?
I don't have the sawfish-dbg package installed, but I'm guessing that installing sawfish-dbg places the debugging information (line information, variable locations, etc. etc.) someplace where GDB magically knows to look for it. This has several benefits--easier packaging, debug vs. normal packages don't stop on each other, etc. etc. -Nathan
