On 23 May 2005 at 19:16, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 23 May 2005 at 13:47, Patricio Rojo wrote: | | I would love to be able to help you. But I'm afraid I've never have | | had the time to read the Debian policy manual nor any reference to the | | Debian packaging tools... I tried looking at the GSL's debian/rules | | file, but it seems that I'll need some time I don't have now to learn | | about all the dh_* commands:(. | | Actually, you can ignore all that. What matters here is just the configure | and the make call. We'd need to "borrow" code from another library package | to see how we can built the library once, install it into place for the | normal package, and then build it again with debug. I think I may have done | that once before ... but I just won't have time to fiddle with this in the | foreseeable future. Hence the tongue-in-cheek request for you to do it :) | | | | Looking forward to the libgsl0-dbg package for whenever you have | | time:D, thank you very much... | | Wait time may converge to \infinity ...
I got it to stop just before infinity :) Turns out that we don't need to rebuild the package, the emerging standard seems to be to build everything with debugging symbols, but the then to strip the symbols into a fresh package $foo-dbg, in this case libgsl0-dbg. Try $ apt-cache -- search -dbg | grep symbols The package will sit in incoming for a bit as a new sub-package don't install automatically. Thanks for the suggestion. I hope you will this useful. Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]