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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:21:32
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8hJcyU44mRrNEc70rfekmQsnoWkg6-FtGgQFU7Dg7jqEw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On 17 December 2012 10:11, Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi lads,
3 > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users.
4 >
5 > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite
6 > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles
7 > default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only
8 > enabled in the developer profile.
9 >
10 > This results in 2 gb data in /usr/lib/debug for my system which is not
11 > that bad with current disk sizes and it saves users quite some time
12 > when i have to request them to recompile half of their system with
13 > debug info just to get idea how to fix their issue.
14 >
15 > I would go even for compressdebug feature but that one needs more time
16 > as some packages like glibc fails to merge with it and you need newer
17 > gdb to work with it.
18 >
19 > Cheers
20 >
21 > Tom
22 >
23
24 Sounds like a reasonable request to me although most people will have
25 their own cflags in make.conf.
26
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2