[PATCH] Re: stripping of DLLs?

[Erik van Pienbroek]

Op vrijdag 03-07-2009 om 19:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Richard
W.M. Jones:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:26:13PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> > - Line information can be retrieved by putting the dll.debug file in the
> >   same directory as the regular .dll
> > - Source information can be retrieved by putting the source files in the
> >   same directory as the executable (or in a relative path if that's the
> >   case)
> 
> Also consider how this will get along with the following feature:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DebuginfoFS
> 
> We might need to use symlinks to ensure that the files we add are
> 'really' located in the ordinary debuginfo directories.  If that will
> work ...
> 
> Rich.

I'm not sure whether the Fedora MinGW project can make advantage of that
feature as most debugging will be done on native Win32 environments. The
only use case I can think of is by performing a remote debug session
(linux host to a win32 target) though I haven't tried doing this yet.
Might be worth more research.

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek