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Re: Installing gcc debugging symbols?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Installing gcc debugging symbols? |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:01:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net> skribis:
> Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net> writes:
>> I could edit gnu/packages/gcc.scm to set the "stripped?" variable to
>> false...
>
> Of course if you're willing to make this change, you can just as easily
> remove the "hidden-package" wrapper around gcc 4.7's package definition
> and then install the debug symbols in the usual manner, i.e. with
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix install gcc@7.5:debug
>
> At least, I assume this is going to work.
>
> Still, I wonder if there is a more "official" method that involves less
> hackery.
I’m afraid there’s no better method currently. The new
‘--with-debug-info’ option wouldn’t help here since it’s compiled with
-g0 unless ‘stripped?’ is changed to #f.
We should make ‘stripped?’ a parameter somehow.
Ludo’.