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Good afternoon, |
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probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug |
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info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of |
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stripping executables while gaining the ability to properly debug |
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executables in bfd aware programs. It's been in testing with a small |
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hand full of devs and works quite well, but before it's pushed in we |
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would like to get input from our devs & users. |
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Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF |
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executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we |
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want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. |
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Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to |
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your features in order to get debug info. |
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Users wishing to not have debug info can simply add |
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INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug ${INSTALL_MASK}" to make.conf or the |
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environment unless we make it FEATURE based. |
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I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you |
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think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) |
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Anybody wanting to test or make use of this feature right away can grab |
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a copy of my prepstrip from |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/portage_misc/prepstrip and save it to |
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/usr/lib/portage/bin/prepstrip or patch portage with |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/patch_overlay/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.53_rc7-prepstrip.patch |
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It requires you merge pax-utils for the scanelf util. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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