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On 12/17/2012 11:11 AM, 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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All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with |
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relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of |
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forcing everybody out there using Gentoo to have additional XGb for |
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debug, patching troublesome packages like webkit-gtk etc. Bug without |
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valid data is by definition... invalid? |
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I'm pretty amused by this thread, cause *you* taught me that ^^. I had |
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once the very same idea :) |
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Cheers, |
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Kacper |
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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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