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From: "Tomáš Chvátal" <tomas.chvatal@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:12:18
Message-Id: CA+NrkpcLgHmbjOt=YKk-JCZ_gimRpdnyCLkUzD18cSieJK7V-A@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi lads,
2 lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users.
3
4 Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite
5 few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles
6 default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only
7 enabled in the developer profile.
8
9 This results in 2 gb data in /usr/lib/debug for my system which is not
10 that bad with current disk sizes and it saves users quite some time
11 when i have to request them to recompile half of their system with
12 debug info just to get idea how to fix their issue.
13
14 I would go even for compressdebug feature but that one needs more time
15 as some packages like glibc fails to merge with it and you need newer
16 gdb to work with it.
17
18 Cheers
19
20 Tom

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