Bug#363516: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#363516: valgrind-clean the RNG

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:52:18AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> Kurt Roeckx schrieb:
> > 
> > The -dbg package is just stripped out debug symbols moved to a
> > different file/package.  Installing the debug package doesn't
> > change the normal library, it's just that the debugger can know
> > found the debug symbols.  The library just has a special header
> > saying where the debug symbols are.
> 
> The idea was to only compile the -dbg package with valgrind support, so
> that the normal library would not be changed. If someone would like to
> use valgrind to check his program he would just use the -dbg library.

In that case we'll have to build things twice as much as now, and
it's not that easy to debug something by just installing the -dbg
package and getting the symbols.


Kurt