On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:50, Ned Ludd wrote: > Good afternoon, > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of > stripping executables while gaining the ability to properly debug > executables in bfd aware programs. It's been in testing with a small > hand full of devs and works quite well, but before it's pushed in we > would like to get input from our devs & users. > > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. > > Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to > your features in order to get debug info.
If we decide to do this, I think we should also find a solution that ensures that the executables actually get built with the debugging information, and that the upstream makefiles don't strip the binaries before we can stop them to. I see two things we can do to fix these problems: - In portage mode, add a null split binary to the path, such that makefiles that try to split, actually don't. Easier than anything else as specifying --debug often also means that you get awful CFLAGS - Make gcc-wrapper be smart about it, and inject a "-g" CFLAG into the command line of the actual gcc. Of course this all should be turned on/off with a feature or useflag or whatever. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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