Vadim Nasardinov writes: > > > - The native package would not have access to the sources, and > > would not be able to generate a useful debuginfo package. This > > would render the packages undebuggable with gdb. > > Can you elaborate? I thought native compilation worked by taking > .class files as input. Where do the sources come in? You don't debug bytecode: you debug source. Debuginfo contains source. Andrew.