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On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: |
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> Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > Good afternoon, |
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> > |
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> > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug |
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> > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of |
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> > stripping executables while gaining the ability to properly debug |
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> > executables in bfd aware programs. It's been in testing with a small |
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> > hand full of devs and works quite well, but before it's pushed in we |
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> > would like to get input from our devs & users. |
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> > |
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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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> |
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> How much space are we talking about? |
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There is no fixed size here and depends on the number of packages you |
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have and the CFLAGS passed to the programs you build. |
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Naturally if you start building all your code with |
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CFLAGS="-g3 -ggdb" your going to end up with a larger debug info. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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