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[20060729] Enabling separate debug symbol support for gdb6
NetBSD-current got an update to the latest GNU debugger, gdb6, recently. That version allows keeping the debug information for a binary in a seperate file, thus not bloating every client's filesystem while still being able to keep debugging symbols around in some place.

Luke Mewburn has sent a proposal to enable this in NetBSD, and he has committed code now that allows setting "MKDEBUG=yes" to put seperate debugging symbols into /usr/libdata/debug.

This is currently not enabled by default, but maybe someone finds this useful, wants to test it and give some feedback.

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