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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: unwind
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:40:26
Message-Id: 1494499197.2019.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: unwind by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On czw, 2017-05-11 at 11:29 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > Suggested description: Add support for stack traces and function name
3 > resolution via sys-libs/libunwind
4
5 Maybe skip the library name. Note that there's also llvm-libunwind,
6 and some packages may be actually happy with libgcc_s.
7
8 > That description is a little unwieldy though, better suggestions are
9 > welcome.
10 >
11 > Currently in use by the following packages:
12 >
13 > dev-cpp/glog:unwind - Use sys-libs/libunwind for stack unwinding instead
14 > of glibc/gcc (may be more reliable on x86_64)
15 > dev-libs/efl:unwind - Enable debug support via sys-libs/libunwind
16 > dev-libs/weston:unwind - Enable libunwind usage for backtraces
17 > dev-util/ltrace:unwind - Use sys-libs/libunwind for frame unwinding support
18 > dev-util/perf:unwind - Use sys-libs/libunwind for frame unwinding support.
19 > dev-util/strace:unwind - Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via
20 > sys-libs/libunwind
21 > media-libs/gstreamer:unwind - Enable sys-libs/libunwind usage for better
22 > backtrace support in leaks tracer module
23 > www-apache/mod_backtrace:unwind - Use sys-libs/libunwind to provide
24 > better resolution of function names.
25 > x11-apps/intel-gpu-tools:unwind - Provide automatic stack traces on test
26 > failures
27 > x11-base/xorg-server:unwind - Enable libunwind usage for backtraces
28 >
29 > I understand that dev-cpp/glog uses the unwind flag differently from the
30 > other packages. If that is an issue that package's flag could be renamed
31 > to "libunwind" as sys-libs/libcxx et al. currently use.
32 >
33
34 Yeah, that makes sense.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny

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