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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> > > It's great! |
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> > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. |
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> > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated |
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> > files, would disable the building of them completely, mainly because "work" |
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> > systems with limited CPU, RAM and HDD space would probably prefer not having |
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> > to create and store them :) |
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> Err, maybe I am incorrect, but isn't it more "work" to ungenerate them |
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> (using strip) then to just not install them? |
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The debug info gets built into the binary by gcc. We copy out the debug |
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info using objcopy --only-keep-debug, add a link with --gnu-debuglink |
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and then remove it from the binary using strip. |
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Without FEATURES=splitdebug the first two steps would be omitted, making |
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it exactly the same as what happens now. So, no more work. |
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Ed Catmur |
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