Re: [pacman-dev] Pacman split debug info symbol path

On 30/03/14 04:00, Dave Reisner wrote:

On Mar 29, 2014 1:52 PM, "Steven Noonan" wrote:

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:

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On Mar 29, 2014 1:36 PM, "Steven Noonan" wrote:

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Hi folks,

I think the directory Pacman is using for the split-out debug symbols is incorrect. This appears to be needed:

Why do you think this? What are the symptoms you're seeing? I use debug packages all the time and they work as expected.

I've seen tools complain they can't find debug symbols or simply not show

any.

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What tools have you used successfully? perf, gdb, and oprofile all seem to look in the 'debug-id' directory, not in 'debug_id'...

gdb and valgrind, mostly. I've not seen either complain about missing symbols.

I think this is an actual bug. I bet gdb/valgrind are finding the /usr/lib/debug/path/to/file symlinks and not using the .build-id path.