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Re: find-debuginfo.sh change for gdb index
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Project Archer <archer at sourceware dot org>, pmatilai at redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:55:21 -0600
- Subject: Re: find-debuginfo.sh change for gdb index
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Tom> For a symbol file X, it looks for X.gdb-index.
Roland> It's not clear to me what that means in the separate .debug case.
Roland> If "symbol file" means the file with the DWARF, then that file is
Roland> foo.debug so you will be looking for foo.debug.gdb-index.
Right, that is what we do.
Roland> I think it is preferable for the packaging not to add the new symlinks.
Roland> It doesn't seem like we really need them, since you can look at the
Roland> .build-id/xx/yyy.debug symlink target name instead.
Sounds good.
In this case I think the most recent patch I sent is the one to use.
Tom