Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:33:23PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Those are real libraries that were not stripped, and those should go away in favour of the detached version. [Yes, I realize this is a really old thread... I haven't been reading -devel lately. Not necessarily true. - They may be

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-20 Thread W. Borgert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:21:29PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: - They may be compiled with lower optimization. - They may be compiled with behavior-altering debugging options. Yes: One has a crash, tries a debug version of a library and suddenly everything behaves totally different, e.g. no

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, you're completely wrong. The files installed in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for detached symbol files by prepending /usr/lib/debug to the full path of the

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-11-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry, you're completely wrong. The files installed in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for

Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:19:07AM +, Darren Salt wrote: I've noticed that several files which should be in /usr/lib/debug are in fact in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib. Checking via packages.d.o shows that as well as this, debug data is showing up in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin and /usr/lib/debug/lib.