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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove annoying "You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging!" message
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 14:21:01
Message-Id: 4DC55514.9040602@gentoo.org
1 This is mostly a nit-like RFC. The developer profile adds a
2 profile.bashrc, which prints the "You should enable -g (or higher) for
3 debugging!" message when "-g" is not in CFLAGS.
4
5 I wonder if we can remove that file. It has been added 3 years ago:
6
7 <http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/targets/developer/profile.bashrc?view=markup>
8
9 It is not obvious from looking at emerge output what prints this
10 message, it doesn't fit well with the rest of the output, and may be
11 easy to miss:
12
13 * USE: elibc_glibc gtk kernel_linux test userland_GNU x86
14 * FEATURES: sandbox splitdebug test userpriv usersandbox
15 You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging!
16 >>> Unpacking source...
17 >>> Unpacking mtr-0.80.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/mtr-0.80/work
18
19 I think it is not necessary for every developer to add "-g" to CFLAGS -
20 the main point is to have any symbols at all, not just
21 to-the-file-and-line-precise debugging info. If the latter is needed,
22 the developer will obviously know what to do.
23
24 What do you think about removing
25 gentoo-x86/profiles/targets/developer/profile.bashrc file?

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