From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 111104 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2015 06:27:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 111093 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2015 06:27:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:27:01 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1R6R0rK028677 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:27:00 -0500 Received: from YAAKOV04.redhat.com ([10.10.116.25]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1R6QwOh006725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:27:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1425018433.11676.34.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:27:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <54EB19C3.2060402@dronecode.org.uk> References: <4FE2BE24.4050508@users.sourceforge.net> <1340999291.11608.0.camel@YAAKOV04> <4FF8352C.6060907@dronecode.org.uk> <54EB19C3.2060402@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00317.txt.bz2 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