From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make dist target for Windows Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:52:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83oci3y893.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4BB2BB70.3090608@gmail.com> <83eij0zydg.fsf@gnu.org> <87634cdr0l.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <4BB3DE2D.7060708@gmail.com> <4BB42877.90601@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270104778 21820 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 06:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 08:52:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxEGr-0001bl-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:52:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEGr-00024f-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEGj-00022Z-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53642 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEGi-00021R-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxEGg-0004Cu-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:55629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxEGg-0004CW-HO; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0600700QOILQ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:52:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.92.42]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L06006D0R3S1T70@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:52:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4BB42877.90601@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123006 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:00:39 +0800 > From: Jason Rumney > > On 01/04/2010 07:43, Christoph wrote: > > Can we provide debug symbols as additional download? Or do you have to > > have it compiled with debug support? > > I'm not sure that gcc supports having debug symbols in a separate file, It's not a GCC option, it's an objcopy option (--only-keep-debug). See the section in the GDB manual pointed to by Jan for more details. However, as this option is a close relative of `strip', I'm afraid that it might not work, for the same (unknown) reasons stripping the dumped Emacs executable doesn't work. I agree that if it does work, it's a good idea to pursue.