On 4 Septemper 2009 Mark Hindess wrote: > In release mode we currently discard windows .pdb files. This is good > because it keeps the size of the jre down but perhaps we should place > the .pdb files for jre/bin/*.dll in the hdk/ lib directory and package > them in our release HDKs? > > On linux we could also create smaller .so files (quite a lot smaller in > some cases!) by stripping them but maintain debug capability by creating > associated .debug files. See: > > http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_17.html#SEC166 > > Something like: > > objcopy --only-keep-debug $dll $hdk/lib/$dll.debug > strip --strip-debug --strip-unneeded $dll > objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$hdk/lib/$dll.debug $dll > > so gdb can pick them up[0]. > > Do people think this is a reasonable idea? > > Regards, > Mark. > > [0] Probably with the help of an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting
We could create both versions, light and with the symbols. -- Gregory
