Quoting Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2003-07-16 17:46:25 BST): > On 16-Jul-03, 08:27 (CDT), Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Description : Tools to read from and write to ELF files > > > > A collection of utilities, including ld (a linker), nm (for listing > > symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an > > object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readline (the > > see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed > > ELF files). Also included are numerous helper libraries which implement > > DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. > > And the point of this would be? I mean, I certainly don't object to you > packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given > binutils.
Fair question! This package's strip program allows you to strip out debugging symbols, _putting them in a separate file_. This can be used by gdb at a later date for debugging a stripped binary as if it weren't stripped. No extra arguments to gdb need be provided either, as far as I can tell. Then I can provide a package foo with an adjunct, foo-debug or foo-dbg (which will depend on foo). It looks to be a neater solution than having two separate incompatible packages called foo and foo-dbg. I freely admit, I got the idea from Red Hat. They provide foo-debuginfo RPMs for virtually every package, I believe. -- VIKING EASTERLY 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 IN SOUTH. FAIR. MAINLY GOOD
