Brandon, If we just built GHC with debug symbols enabled, everything should just work from a packaging perspective?
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I believe other compilers, e.g. GCC, ship debug symbols in separate files >> (https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc-dbg >> >> ) that e.g. GDB can then look up. >> > > Lookaside debugging information is (a) a Linux-ism, although possibly also > included in mingw --- but not OS X or the *BSDs (b) on RPM-based systems at > least, is split out of objects into separate files, and thence into debug > packages, by the standard RPM support macros before the standard strip step > (I expect debuild does something similar on Debian-ish systems). > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
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