On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther wrote: > > My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something > > such. > > AFAIK, this never happens. The reduction is done mainly for the thing > not to be too big in the memory while running.
Hi Eddy, I wonder how the current situation works for .udebs not in the image ? How do you find out whose symbols are used by them and know not to strip them ? Is this just luck ? I sincerely doubt that. > > In any case if you have a better idea on how to do this, maybe having a > > statically built gdb, it would be welcome too. > > A statically built gdb is he way to go, IMHO. > > If you'd want a udeb for gdb, then the library reduction should take > into account its dependencies (symbols). This would mean: > - - either you make a custom image which uses mklibs-copy (no reduction) > and you can use a regular binary or a gdb udeb which contains just the > gdb binary (dynamically linked) > - - build a custom image with gdb's needed symbols not stripped - but this > means that gdb could not be used for regulaly built images. We need a custom image anyway, since we need a -debug version of the binaries we want to debug. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
