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On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:50, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> Good afternoon, |
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> Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF |
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> executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we |
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> want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. |
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For me either way is good as long as it's well documented in the install |
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handbook. |
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A notice for all those upgrading would be fine as well.. |
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> Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to |
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> your features in order to get debug info. |
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> Users wishing to not have debug info can simply add |
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> INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug ${INSTALL_MASK}" to make.conf or the |
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> environment unless we make it FEATURE based. |
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FEATURE based is probably the best way of doing it... |
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What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra location |
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instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller foot-print in |
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memory while the debugging info is not used), and what tools are compatible |
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with this external debug info? |
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> I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you |
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> think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) |
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Having the debug info preserved by default makes it possible for the user to |
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get debug information which may be used for bug-reporting on program crashes, |
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but will probably just fill the disk of basic users who do have no interest |
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in reporting bugs or trying to get more information about the cause of bugs. |
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Bruno |
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