Java debugging

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 17:20:25 UTC 2008


Jerry James wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>  Most of this should not be necessary.  We have, or had, a modified version of
>>  ecj that always generates debuginfo when an RPM is being compiled, so
>>  if there exists any RPM that is missing debuginfo, that is a regression.
>>
>>  Also, when AOT-compiling, we should be generating the full paths for all
>>  the source files and therefore all the sources should be in the debuginfo
>>  packages.
>>
>>  Please tell me which package is missing these, and I'll find out which
>>  of these mechanisms has broken.
> 
> axis-debuginfo-1.2.1-2jpp.7.fc7.x86_64.rpm which, despite the name, is
> the current package for F8.  It looks like it was generated before the
> fix went in.  

Right, that makes sense.

> Dare I suggest a rebuild of all Java packages of sufficient age?

You can suggest it, but I doubt that it's worthwhile.  After all, it's
easy for anyone to rebuild the package.  Trouble is, they have know way
to know that's all they have to do; I know of no easy solution for that.

Andrew.




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