Re: [MiNT] Native gcc 4.4.1 and binutils 2.19.1

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Btw. On Debian stripping is done by the packaging tools Debhelper dh_strip
> script which automatically does the right thing.  It also automatically puts
> the debug symbols to a separate debug symbols file (/usr/lib/debug/<path to
> corresponding binary>) and adds the debug symbol file path & CRC to
> the binary's .gnu_debuglink section when so requested 
> (with "--dbg-package=<package name>"dh_strip option).
>
> Gdb etc. will then automatically find the debug symbols if they're installed
> and one doesn't need to have two sets of binaries, one with debug symbols
> and ones without.
>
> Doesn't MiNT RPM & related tools support anything like this?

Unfortunately no because the MiNT executables are actually a flavour of
a.out which does not support extra sections like .gnu_debuglink
It might be possible if the executable format would be extended to look
more or less like ELF.

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Vincent Rivière