Bugs in debuginfo packages

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 5 07:30:43 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:08:37PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
> I modified the script to skip OCaml-generated packages. There seem to be 
> no reasonable way to correctly detect OCaml-generated _binaries_.

I had a quick look at ELF headers and so on, but I think you are
right.  One issue is that no ocamlopt binaries are purely OCaml code;
even completely pure OCaml programs link to small pieces of
gcc-compiled runtime (it's probably a bug that debuginfo isn't
generated for those pieces).

Rich.

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