On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi lads, > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from > users. > > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only > enabled in the developer profile. > > This results in 2 gb data in /usr/lib/debug for my system which is not > that bad with current disk sizes and it saves users quite some time > when i have to request them to recompile half of their system with > debug info just to get idea how to fix their issue. > > I would go even for compressdebug feature but that one needs more time > as some packages like glibc fails to merge with it and you need newer > gdb to work with it. > > Cheers > > Tom
The bigger problem is not disk space but memory usage at link time. Try building something like *-webkit-* or firefox with debugging CFLAGS on a machine with limited memory.
