Shipping core libraries with debug symbols

[Johan Tibell]

Brandon,

If we just built GHC with debug symbols enabled, everything should just
work from a packaging perspective?

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe other compilers, e.g. GCC, ship debug symbols in separate files
>> (https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc-dbg
>>
>> ) that e.g. GDB can then look up.
>>
>
> Lookaside debugging information is (a) a Linux-ism, although possibly also
> included in mingw --- but not OS X or the *BSDs (b) on RPM-based systems at
> least, is split out of objects into separate files, and thence into debug
> packages, by the standard RPM support macros before the standard strip step
> (I expect debuild does something similar on Debian-ish systems).
>
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