On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:02, Ian Truelsen wrote: > Would it be possible to implement a debug use flag that could be used > to add debugging options to ebuilds so that one could get a backtrace > without having to manually build from the sources?
Already possible. :) DEBUGBUILD=true emerge package I got this from /etc/make.globals, BTW, which contains the following: # Debug build -- if defined, binaries won't be stripped #DEBUGBUILD=true You could set it in make.conf, of course, but I just use it one package at a time because I don't want to debug *everything*. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." // --Thomas Jefferson
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