[Nix-dev] Debugging Symbols

[Kevin Cox]

On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 17:50 +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> This is already supported. Just add
>   separateDebugInfo = true;
> 
> to a package to get an output named "debug", with debug symbols in
> lib/debug/.build-id. This also enables the -ggdb flag.
> 
> You can then enable GDB to find these symbols by adding
> 
>   environment.enableDebugInfo = true;
> 
> to configuration.nix.
> 
> Note however that very few packages in Nixpkgs currently set separateDebugInfo
> because Hydra disk space is problematic as it is.
> 
> 

That sounds fantastic. I'll try it out. I didn't realize that the
enableDebugInfo flag was required.
On a somewhat related note, I was wondering why the environment links
specific directories, rather then automatically linking everything?
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