= Proposed System Wide Change: Debugging Information For Static Libraries = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StaticLibraryDebuginfo Change owner(s): * Florian Weimer <fweimer AT redhat DOT com> This change proposes to ship debugging information in static libraries. == Detailed Description == At present, rpm strips static libraries and discards the debugging information in them (that is, the debugging information is not copied into the -debuginfo packages). After that, there is no way to recover the debugging information, say if it is needed to analyze an issue in a statically linked application. This change proposes to stop stripping static libraries. To improve debugging experience, it is desirable that the static libraries are still rewritten at RPM build time, to point the file references to the final location under /usr/src/debug. The technical side of this change is tracked in bug 1395280. == Scope == * Proposal owners: rpm needs to be changed to stop stripping static libraries. If possible, static libraries should still be rewritten so that the debugging information points to the source files under /usr/src/debug, for optimum developer experience. * Other developers: Some packages copy static libraries into places where rpm cannot find them, so that they are not stripped. These changes are not strictly necessary, but can reduce RPM/installation size for developer packages. * Release engineering: This change requires a mass rebuild to become fully effective. * List of deliverables: No release blocking deliverables. * Policies and guidelines: no changes proposed (change will be implemented through rpm) * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
