Remaining debuginfo packages without sources (ocaml, haskell, erlang, etc)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed May 20 20:20:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:29:31PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Ocaml related packages: why, mediawiki, zenon, hevea, planets

I suspect that these packages just need debuginfo turned off.  For the
majority of OCaml packages we do:

%define debug_package %{nil}

The reason is that upstream OCaml doesn't generate meaningful dwarf
information, and gdb doesn't support OCaml either (there is an
OCaml-specific debugger).  Both facts are regrettable but require a
great deal of effort to fix, which we don't have resources to do.

Rich.

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