Re: Removing all remaining distinction between shared, debug, profile and static libs/executables

[Aredridel]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 18:47 +0200, Nicola Pero wrote:
> Adam has removed the '_d' library name suffix for debug libraries ... a
> very welcome
> change which will make everything simpler and less liable to break :-)
> 
> I think having done this, we lost the ability to have debug and non-debug
> libs at the
> same time, so we can simplify everything a lot ... without losing much
> more, since we
> have already done the big sacrifice ;-)

GDB can read debug info from a separate file, so it's quite possible to
split the libraries, leaving a stripped version, and a file of the
stripped info.

PLD ships their binaries this way, a foo package and foo-debuginfo
package. Works nicely, can download the corresponsing debuginfo if it's
needed.

Aria

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