[RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 27 06:27:00 GMT 2015
On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:14 +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 14:10, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > I was going to suggest the use of objcopy --compress-debug-sections, but it
> > appears that does nothing for PE/COFF files at the moment [1] :-(
> >
> > [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14067
>
> That bug has been fixed for a while, so how about the attached?
>
> This appears to reduce the disk space used by .dbg files to about 1/3 of
> the size, so seems worthwhile.
Have you tested that the resulting split debuginfo work properly with
gdb?
--
Yaakov
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