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[Help-gsl] Re: debugging with gdb
From: |
Thomas Weber |
Subject: |
[Help-gsl] Re: debugging with gdb |
Date: |
Sat, 17 May 2008 08:58:17 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On 16/05/08 17:30 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 16/05/2008, Jack Denman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > You can't "install debug symbols".
>
> You can in Debian. I'm not sure how they do it, but they do package
> debug symbols separately for some libraries. You still need to get the
> library source from a different package in order to use those debug
> symbols.
Packages are built with debugging symbols, then
objcopy --only-keep-debug
is used to move the debugging information into separate files and later
into a separate package.
The process is explained in more detail in objcopy's manpage, under the
help for the above option.
Thomas