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


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