Re: Final separate debug info patch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>]

On 19 Nov 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> Is there any particular reason that the elfutils `strip -f' throws
> away all but the last component of the filenames given to it?

None in particular. I just didn't need the full pathname with the 
search-method i used in the gdb patch.
 
> $ /home/jimb/elfutils/bin/strip -f `pwd`/foon call-rt-st
> $ objdump -s -j .gnu_debuglink call-rt-st
> 
> call-rt-st:     file format elf32-i386
> 
> Contents of section .gnu_debuglink:
>  0000 666f6f6e 00000000 f74a8703           foon.....J..    
> $ 
> 
> It seems to me that strip should preserve the filename given in its -f
> argument.  Let consumers of the .gnu_debuglink section decide for
> themselves what to do with it.
> 
> Then, I think if the filename in the .gnu_debuglink section is
> absolute, GDB should try that path instead of searching in the
> directory containing the stripped file.  Or it should at least try it
> at some point.

That makes sense to me. Uli? Is this ok with you?
 
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