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From: Edward Catmur <ed@×××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:24:10
Message-Id: 1133151661.15135.37.camel@capella.catmur.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?) by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:18 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > maillog: 27/11/2005-13:54:33(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types
3 > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 > > > It's great!
5 > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles.
6 > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the generated
7 > > files, would disable the building of them completely, mainly because "work"
8 > > systems with limited CPU, RAM and HDD space would probably prefer not having
9 > > to create and store them :)
10 >
11 > Wouldn't that break binary packages? I.e., if a binary package is built
12 > on a system with FEATURES=-splitdebug and then merged on a system with
13 > FEATURES=splitdebug the debug info would be missing.
14
15 There's nothing to break. The only program that looks for debug symbols
16 is gdb; if they're not there it does what it does currently; print "(no
17 debugging symbols found)".
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19 Ed Catmur
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