Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:44:05PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I pinger vorlon on this on IRC. He suggested to get in touch with d-policy for this, explaining why OCaml libraries should be in our opinion be handled differently than other libraries. I argued with him that the reason why it

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Ob: debian-ocaml-maint, look at the end of this mail ] tags 415194 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: The bytecode files are currently compiled without debugging support. This makes it hard to debug other code that might be called by it. Eg, a

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread skaller
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 11:58 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [bytecode with debug?] Is it still possible to use the debugger and get a backtrace etc if there are no debugging symbols in these libraries? If not .. it defeats an important use of these libraries for people who do have a native

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:25:34PM +1000, skaller wrote: Is it still possible to use the debugger and get a backtrace etc if there are no debugging symbols in these libraries? Of course not, but this is not the point. Indeed, the same argument can be made for C libraries, but for C libraries

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 9, 2007 at 14:47:40 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:25:34PM +1000, skaller wrote: Is it still possible to use the debugger and get a backtrace etc if there are no debugging symbols in these libraries? Of course not, but this is not the point.

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ Ob: debian-ocaml-maint, look at the end of this mail ] tags 415194 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: The bytecode files are currently compiled without debugging support.

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:54:29PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: OCaml libraries are static, so if there is a way to take a library compiled with -g and link a program with it that results in an executable without debugging symbols, then I think we should do that, because that means you would

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread skaller
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:47 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:25:34PM +1000, skaller wrote: Is it still possible to use the debugger and get a backtrace etc if there are no debugging symbols in these libraries? Of course not, but this is not the point. Indeed,

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread skaller
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:12 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So, apparently, Julien's guess is right: it is indeed possible to link without debugging information OCaml objects which have been previously linked with debugging information. Of course native code (I mean C) is just the same. You

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Info, GuiaArtistica.com.ar
Ocaml Maint ML CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information [ Ob: debian-ocaml-maint, look at the end of this mail ] tags 415194 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote: The bytecode files are currently compiled without

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Ivan Jager
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:25:34PM +1000, skaller wrote: Is it still possible to use the debugger and get a backtrace etc if there are no debugging symbols in these libraries? Of course not, but this is not the point. Indeed, the same argument can

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So, at the moment I'm tagging this bug report as wontfix, but diverting the more general question of should we mandate inclusion of debugging symbols in OCaml bytecode libraries? to the debian-ocaml-maint mailing list. On one

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:51:41PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I've just commit a change to our policy which mandates the compilation of bytecode libraries with -g and forbid it for bytecode programs. I pinger vorlon on this on IRC. He suggested to get in touch with d-policy for this,

Bug#415194: libextlib-ocaml-dev: No debugging information

2007-03-16 Thread Ivan Jager
Package: libextlib-ocaml-dev Version: 1.5-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch The bytecode files are currently compiled without debugging support. This makes it hard to debug other code that might be called by it. Eg, a function passed to List.iter. Since the standard libraries are compiled with