Re: [Gaim-devel] configure.ac CFLAGS

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

sometimes it is, _some_ debian packages have a -dbg package containing 
debuging info, and some of the rh packages have a -debug rpm as well. I 
don't know how possible this is for Torrey's solaris packages.

luke

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:49:51AM -0600, Tim Ringenbach wrote:
> Torrey McMahon wrote:
> 
> >Leaving the symbols in place for the distro can be a good idea. It 
> >makes first failure analysis easier to do. If not you have to cobble 
> >together a new binary, hope you didn't change something in-between, 
> >get them to reproduce, etc. 
> 
> Normally that's up to the distro to decide.
> 
> Can't you separate the debuging symbols into a seperate file or files? 
> So that, for example, you install stripped binaries, Gaim crashes and 
> leaves a core dump, so you install gaim-debug.rpm and generate a uselful 
> backtrace. I'm pretty sure you can do that, how come it's never done 
> like that?
> 
> --Tim
> 
> 
> 
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