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On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: |
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> Hi lads, |
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> lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. |
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> |
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> Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite |
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> few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles |
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> default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only |
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> enabled in the developer profile. |
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> This results in 2 gb data in /usr/lib/debug for my system which is not |
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> that bad with current disk sizes and it saves users quite some time |
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> when i have to request them to recompile half of their system with |
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> debug info just to get idea how to fix their issue. |
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> I would go even for compressdebug feature but that one needs more time |
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> as some packages like glibc fails to merge with it and you need newer |
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> gdb to work with it. |
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> Cheers |
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> |
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> Tom |
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The bigger problem is not disk space but memory usage at link time. Try |
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building something like *-webkit-* or firefox with debugging CFLAGS on a |
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machine with limited memory. |