On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/09/12 22:48, Mick wrote: >> >> I got this message in elog: >> >> * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4: >> >> * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols. >> * To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf >> * and remerge glibc. See: >> * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214065 >> * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274771 >> * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388703 >> >> but my glibc has no splitdebug USE flags > > > What the other posters said, except that you shouldn't add "splitdebug" in > your make.conf. If you do that, it will affect all packages. > > What you do instead is put this text into /etc/portage/env/sys-libs/glibc > (yes, it must be a text file, not a directory): > > CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g" > CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g" > FEATURES="${FEATURES} splitdebug"
I'm fairly sure (I could be wrong) that splitdebug doesn't cause -g or a derivative to be added to CFLAGS. Hence why I have "-ggdb" in my CFLAGS. (All in make.conf. Given splitdebug, I haven't heard a solid reason not to.) -- :wq
