Re: Final separate debug info patch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>]

On 19 Nov 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> 
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > That makes sense to me. Uli? Is this ok with you?
> > 
> > I don't know.  I imagine that strip is used like this in the build root
> > for the distribution.  By preserving the entire path lots on unusable
> > information is leaked and distributed.  This is true for many situations.
> > 
> > Unless somebody can provide a really good reason why the entire path is
> > needed I rather not change anything.
> 
> Well, my motivating case is a GDB test script that copies the
> executable elsewhere.  At the moment, I can just override the
> compilation procedure in the target board file and run the entire GDB
> test suite against separated executables without modifying any of the
> test scripts.  Except for this one test.  Now, if strip kept an
> absolute path when it was given one, and GDB used it, then copying the
> executable wouldn't hurt, and everything would just work.
> 
> If people don't want to include absolute paths, they don't have to
> give one to strip, it seems to me.  Strip preserving what it's given
> doesn't take away anyone's choices.

When i'm building in the build system i will always be using absolute 
paths to put the files in the right place. For instance for /usr/bin/app 
it will do -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/app.debug. So we will 
leak some strange absolute paths. Of course, if gdb used the basename 
when searching the global directories that wouldn't affect the result, but 
it is sort of ugly.

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