Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:04:20 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>, Mark Subject: Re: Userland debug symbols directory Message-ID: <20101106180420.GA50159@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <20101106175603.GL2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <20101105191443.GD1437@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> <20101105204519.GA2843@tops> <20101106173620.GA45793@sandvine.com> <20101106175603.GL2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 07:56:03PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > > > > > I like the idea a lot, but why not to leave symbol files in /usr/obj, > > > > The application where this is most useful (and why we implemented it > > originally) is the case where /usr/obj isn't available - for instance, > > a binary installation other than where the source tree was built. If > > you're going to keep /usr/obj around anyway then you can get most of > > the benefit by just keeping the unstripped binaries / libs in there, > > no? > Not that easy, since you have to arrange to use libraries from obj/, > by LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. > > I fully support the work to install symbol files, and it should go > into /usr, might be /usr/lib/debug. Possibly, some change to gdb (config) > is required. Yeah, I just mean that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH or whatever is still a lot easier than realizing you don't have the debug info at all, and trying to rebuild an identical binary or library with debug. I definitely want the changes to build and install the symbol files in the FreeBSD tree. I don't have a huge concern over the exact path we pick. -Ed
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