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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:15
Message-Id: yu939gyyeue.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what is /usr/lib64/debug ? by Daniel Pielmeier
1 On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
2
3 > 2011/8/18 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>:
4 >> /usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as
5 >> directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64.
6 >>
7 >> For example
8 >>
9 >>    ajglap lib64 # /bin/pwd
10 >>    /usr/lib64/debug/usr/lib64
11 >>    ajglap lib64 # du -s * | sort -n | tail -10
12 >>    34020       mesa
13 >>    53148       gstreamer-0.10
14 >>    155992      icedtea6
15 >>    161360      llvm
16 >>    208932      qt4
17 >>    304016      xulrunner-devel-2.0
18 >>    308880      xulrunner-2.0
19 >>    618408      firefox
20 >>    669000      libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.7.2.debug
21 >>    1087848     libreoffice
22 >>    ajglap lib64 #
23 >>
24 >> Is this correct?  My system is ~amd64
25 >
26 >
27 > Do you have the splitdebug [1] FEATURE enabled?
28 >
29 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
30
31 Bingo.
32
33 If I drop this feature (I turned it on for tracking a bug) will the
34 /usr/lib64/debug tree go away or must I delete it manually.
35
36 Also are there any other large subtrees I need to purge?
37
38 thanks for the help.
39 allan

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