[oe] [RFC] -dbg for static libraries?

[GNUtoo]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 13:01 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 01:40 -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > Would it make sense to package stripped version of a static lib into -dev and 
> > the full version into corresponding -dbg?
> 
> I'm not sure that you'd want the debugging .a file in -dbg itself, since
> the -dbg packages are for installation on the target device and the .a
> libraries would be useless there. 
> 
> Punting the debug versions of the .a libraries into a new package
> (-static-dbg or some such) wouldn't be a bad idea.  Or, for SDK
> purposes, you could even consider ditching the .a libraries altogether
> for packages that have a .so since virtually nobody is going to be doing
> static linking in this day and age.
I often do static linking for different reasons:
*different libc on the target(like with android for instance)
*debugging(like in the case where all shared libs segfaulted on mips
+uclibc,I needed a static gdb,a static strace etc...)
Denis