On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:27:53AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > On 11 February 2015 at 23:43, Alfred Perlstein <alf...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Agreed, SMALL platforms should turn off at decision of those platform > > maintainers. Won't fight to keep debug default on for arm, that's for sure. > > Actually, it's even more important that we build and store debug files > for ARM releases. Consider a user running FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, > using an image they downloaded and dd'd onto an SD card. The advice > "rebuild with debug data and try to reproduce the issue" is more > absurd there than on a big amd64 machine. > > All of this concerns what is on the installation media and in the > release package sets, though, and not necessarily the default setting > of the knob. It is technically possible for the release builds to > enable debug files but leave the default off in the tree, although > there are disadvantages of doing so. >
We cannot set non-default options for release builds, because we lose reproducibility in the "by default" sense. Glen
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