[Help-gsl] Re: debugging with gdb

[Rodney Sparapani]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> On 16/05/08 17:30 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > On 16/05/2008, Jack Denman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >  You can't "install debug symbols".
> > You can in Debian. I'm not sure how they do it, but they do package
> > debug symbols separately for some libraries. You still need to get the
> > library source from a different package in order to use those debug
> > symbols.
>
> Packages are built with debugging symbols, then 
> 	objcopy --only-keep-debug 
> is used to move the debugging information into separate files and later 
> into a separate package.
>
> The process is explained in more detail in objcopy's manpage, under the
> help for the above option.
>
>         Thomas

Hi Thomas:

It's hard enough debugging code without putting up with this extra 
nonsense.  Is there any good reason why they do that?  I was under the 
impression that the debugging symbols create very little overhead.  I 
don't use Debian, but I do use Blastwave.  Someone please tell me that 
it doesn't have this "feature".

Thanks,

Rodney