I’m trying to use the --fission Bazel command line option to generate a binary with separate debug information in a Linux C++ project using the default GCC toolchain.

I don’t see any difference when I build with or without --fission.

I’m using the hello-world example from the Bazel C++ tutorial and Bazel version 7.2.1.

I’m trying build commands like:

bazel build -c dbg --fission=yes //main:hello-world

using different compilation modes and --fission values, but the file with the debug symbols is not generated.

I found a similar problem on GitHub, but it seems to be solved and none of the workarounds worked for me.