Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 14/09/12 22:48, Mick wrote:
>>
>> I got this message in elog:
>>
>> * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4:
>>
>>   * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols.
>>   * To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf
>>   * and remerge glibc.  See:
>>   * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214065
>>   * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274771
>>   * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388703
>>
>> but my glibc has no splitdebug USE flags
>
>
> What the other posters said, except that you shouldn't add "splitdebug" in
> your make.conf.  If you do that, it will affect all packages.
>
> What you do instead is put this text into /etc/portage/env/sys-libs/glibc
> (yes, it must be a text file, not a directory):
>
> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g"
> CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g"
> FEATURES="${FEATURES} splitdebug"

I'm fairly sure (I could be wrong) that splitdebug doesn't cause -g or
a derivative to be added to CFLAGS. Hence why I have "-ggdb" in my
CFLAGS.

(All in make.conf. Given splitdebug, I haven't heard a solid reason not to.)

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