[SOLVED] How to provide both debug and release version of a library in two packages?

soroush

I would like to make three debian packages for my library. One for development, say libfoo-dev another one for runtime library libfoo and finally a library for debug build libfoo-dbg.

Currently I'm doing like this in my .pro :

@
CONFIG(release, debug|release){
DESTDIR = ./release
OBJECTS_DIR = release/.obj
MOC_DIR = release/.moc
RCC_DIR = release/.rcc
UI_DIR = release/.ui
BUILD = "release"
TARGET = foo
}

CONFIG(debug, debug|release){
DESTDIR = ./debug
OBJECTS_DIR = debug/.obj
MOC_DIR = debug/.moc
RCC_DIR = debug/.rcc
UI_DIR = debug/.ui
BUILD = "debug"
TARGET = foo_d
}
@

And then, debug and release binaries have different names, (like official Qt libs)

My Question is that, is there another way to provide debugging symbols without releasing a huge library? May be something like exporting a def dump?

tobias.hunger

IIRC you only need to build a debug version. Debian will strip debug symbols from its packages automatically and it can store those symbols into a dbg package if desired.

The -dbg package should contain the debugging symbols only, there is no separate debug build of the library needed. The symbols are picked up by the debugger automatically (if done correctly;)

See http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage for the details.

soroush

It works :)

Thakns