This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: [RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:56:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages
- References: <4FE2BE24.4050508@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:24:36AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>Attached is a first draft of a patch to support split debuginfo packages
>automatically in cygport. I'm looking for comments and suggestions,
>particularly on the following:
>
>1) I propose adding a Debug category for all -debuginfo packages.
>
>2) This places the debuginfo from e.g. /usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dll into
>/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dbg. Unfortunately, when gdb finds
>library dependencies, they show up as e.g.
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/cygfoo-X.dll instead of as in /usr/bin, causing
>gdb to not find the debug file. There are at least three solutions to this:
>
>a. Fix (cygwin or) gdb to use /usr paths over /cygdrive/c/cygwin paths;
Why is this necessary? The path to the debuginfo file is supposed to be
in the executable. cygwin1.dll doesn't use cygdrive.
cgf