propagation of "-g" in shared libraries with gcc

Question

I have the a program abc. abc uses the library def and def in turn includes a library ghi.

Now, libghi.so is compiled and linked using gcc -g. libdef.so is also compiled and linked using gcc -g. However, abc isn't linked with -g.

The question is, if I debug abc with gdb should I be able to see the symbols in def and ghi?

The project is pretty big and compilation takes a few hours, which is why I'm asking before testing it myself.

Answer 1

Yes, you will be able to, though it may be a bit difficult to use them without the debug info in the calling application.