[fpc-devel] Extracting debug-information from fpc-executables

[Marc Weustink]

Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> Op woensdag 17-10-2007 om 13:22 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Joost van
> der Sluis:
>> On recent (development) Fedora-systems the debug-information is
>> extracted form executables in a different manner.
>>
>> That could be a problem when building RPM's on a Fedora system.
>>
>> I got this output, does it ring a bell to anyone?
>>
>> + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /builddir/build/BUILD/fpcbuild-2.2.0
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/lib64/fpc/2.2.0/ppcx64
>> /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/lib64/fpc/2.2.0/ppcx64: Could not find DWARF-2 abbreviation -1
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/plex
>> /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/plex: Could not find DWARF-2 abbreviation 255
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/fpcmake
>> /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/fpcmake: Could not find DWARF-2 abbreviation -1
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/fp
>> /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/fp: Could not find DWARF-2 abbreviation -1
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/rmcvsdir
>> /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/rmcvsdir: Could not find DWARF-2 abbreviation -1
>> extracting debug info from /var/tmp/fpc-2.2.0-7.fc8-root-kojibuilder/usr/bin/h2pas
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22914 (%install)
> 
> Someone from Redhat helped investigate and solve the problem. There was
> one problem with rpm
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336951) which is fixed.
> 
> But there is also a fpc-bug
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337051)

Can you create a Mantis issue for this.


> They updated the rpm-package, so that it doesn't crach on it anymore
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337011) but I like to have
> this fixed in fpc.
> 
> But I think I've heard some fpc-developers talking about this issue
> before, are the problems with file-names in the dwarf-debuginfo fixed?
> And do fpc follow the guidelines as in the bug-report?

I need to reread the specs. IIRC I added the lineinfo according to my 
interpretation of the specs

Marc