[RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 17:54 +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 27/02/2015 06:27, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's hardly a comprehensive test, but I did try this:
[snip]

Fair enough, I have pulled in this patch for further testing.

Thanks,

Yaakov