Re: RFC: support debug info in separate files

Andrew Cagney
2002-12-10T19:37:54Z

> Andrew Cagney writes:
> > Hmm, to wear fernando's hat :-) Is there a new test that demonstrates
> > this feature?
>
> You need the special strip program. One could think of avoiding
> running strip by storing the blah.debug files in the gdb.base source
> directory, but then the executable built at the time you run the tests
> wouldn't be stripped as gdb expects it. One other way would be to
> maybe store the strip program somewhere in the gdb source, but I don't
> think this elfutils/strip is FSF.

Do you have the specifics of the `strip' command and its behavior? I'll
suggest it to binutils. Hopefully (assuming the feature is as useful as
it sounds) it will soon be added.

To expand on the test. What I was thinking of was something to check
that the prefix command worked.

> I know that Jim was able to run the testsuite but I think he relied on
> having the proper strip installed on the system.

Ah!

Andrew