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Oh yeah, it's back, for the 6th time :) I've provided links to all the other discussions I could find on theaimsgroup in case you want to take a trip down memory lane. Hopefully I'll summarize the previous discussion well enough that you don't have to torture yourself..too much. The latest discussion ( [4], [5] ) was brought up by SpanKY about how the debug use flag and eclass are used differently depending on the situation. Some used the flag for turning on internal debugging routines ( think verbose library output ). Some used the flag to change CFLAGS and turn off stripping so that the debug symbols would remain intact. - From use.desc we gather: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage/profiles $ cat use.desc | grep debug debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too Many people do not like the fact that a USE flag changes CFLAGS. Although there are other USE flags that do this too ( pic comes to mind in a couple ebuilds, checkpassword fex ) they are a minority compared to debug. People want to be able to debug things in a simple manner, and this is not easily possible with the current portage system. It requires per-package FEATURES ( which is bottled with a host of other things, see [6] ). So, for future versions of portage ( not stable, unless per-package features makes it in...somehow ) we add a FEATURE called "debug". This FEATURE will: 1. Set CFLAGS to a gentoo standard set ( perhaps user configurable ) of flags. 2. Will turn on FEATURES="nostrip". 3. Anything else it should do? ( Redhat's moving debug info to a seperate location perhaps? [3] The debug.eclass will be depreciated. The DEBUG use flag will change names to an agreed upon name that specifies the addition of debuging output. Foser's debuginfo change seemed appropriately named ( although thanks for changing it back :) ). No more eclass, no more packages inheriting from the debug but not even using the USE flag, just one per-package feature. [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=8&s=debug&q=b [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=7&s=debug&q=b [3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=4&s=debug&q=b [4] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=2&s=debug&q=b [5] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=debug&q=b [6] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44796 [7] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55708 [8] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55977 - -Alec Warner ( Antarus ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQu7KxmzglR5RwbyYAQIXjg//VjprL1CML8ZfYvSNLI/AujugOs1p3M4X zFomIdqklIlzYNYet6qKe8esi3TQe59/UwYvQBTsIg7gXYI3ij6oq81CbU7MQUY5 DK1YKlAdsW75EKwhc8Bo47m7X9medC55m6XcoiweRPoEcsF9B1Aw1qfRm5B9WT8J hYtRmp0vHvdF9Viw0t5ekpX3VvYrqffheClUs9i0VraDikZ3ycKk8cKGpxPDUxE1 CwcnaPMN2HKNNW2jieH4rrTVRNCaZ2ZIf/x5QlaU1i8W20KzoT5JUAkMQVcsQtby FTfN35xgK1BFGblPHpb4taRGgwa2oaQwXUV+aux8nZy9jYXPBQcEXFRSoGKpHlNp uAftITo93MDC06PqcstVBCsJJTTiiP6MGIyfn+U0ghopPBpF7/Cn9RLQxrTbBJVC M2yEIZ+mb+3Nneii5kUe9ErH2EgEt/K2UkPLNXZBS6kiFI9AGSQZK/3bVE3QUbFM hN5hP0IGgS7WU3qFO8PluOOoIm/uDhG9XyWoCqW0rO5rLv2eCeqpNhIhZANs2Plw xjZuGnPkMLA1TxF2OZoc5T3+/gUHX/2Y/aAItYTZra+lvQBEZMXz3Kxoz4vmWjWs rWsbTejZMUUUfd8XVXxBLw4WFt2V2pDdla1LzAx9lF+aSMm15NhdwmfCV7nHblaU bB+LTL4QH9g= =3iaR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
