| Stephen Gran on 4 Feb 2006 12:58:38 -0000 |
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:41:08PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said: > I don't suppose it's also become trivial to specify that I'd like > dependency resolution preferentially to cause installation of the -dbg > versions? ;-) You might be able to hack up an apt-preferences stanza to do that, actually, but it seems like some doing. I realize I didn't explain the way it's being done clearly enough earlier, though (the consequence of emailing late at night, I suppose), so I'll give it another stab. The -dbg packages actaully contain nothing but the bits strip pulls off of the binaries and libraries - it is just a bunch of detached debug symbols with no real functionality of their own. gdb knows to look for them under /usr/lib/debug, so if you have a crash in /usr/bin/foo, that uses /usr/lib/foo.so and /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6, will pick up all the right bits from the detached symbols and give you a reasonable backtrace without touching the original libraries or binary. Clever, really, I think. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Heavier than air flying machines are | | steve@lobefin.net | impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | President, Royal Society, c. 1895 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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