[PATCH] Re: stripping of DLLs?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:57:52AM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Op donderdag 04-06-2009 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Fridrich
> Strba:
> > Just install them side by side with the binaries, like
> > something.dll.debug in the same directory as something.dll
> > 
> > The gnu debug link information will tell gdb on win32 where to look for
> > the symbols.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Fridrich
> 
> Sorry for the late response, but I prepared a patch for
> mingw32-filesystem to add -debug subpackage support. Is it okay to
> commit this?

Yes, but I think we should only commit this to Rawhide.

> I've also added a patch for one of my packages to indicate the steps
> needed for all mingw32 packages to get -debug subpackage support. It
> basically consists of two extra lines.

Got a patch for mingw32-example.spec?

> One thing I noticed while preparing this is that there's an openSuSE
> buildsystem project [1] which has basically forked all our work and
> added more features and packages to it. I wonder why this fork was done
> and why features (like this -debug subpackage support) haven't been
> proposed upstream (to us) sooner? Several packages there also have their
> ChangeLog stripped away so the history can't be viewed anymore..

Fridrich has posted about it on this list a couple of times I think.

But yes, it'd be nice to unify the packages more.

Rich.

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