Hi René and Ryan,

On 27 Oct 2014, at 01:04 , René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've started calling the variant +devel since that discussion. But AFAIC it 
> doesn't need to be included in an official port …

ok, removing this variant might be a way to go…


>> there is a “debug” variant already available due to the kde portgroup...
>> Why did you need to introduce a “nostrip” variant? Is that because of 
>> CMAKE_STRIP:FILEPATH?
> 
> The KDE +debug variant requires qt4-mac +debug, and that's a sort of 
> frankenmonster I'd prefer to avoid. 

I see what you mean, of course. :)


> It's basically useless, most importantly because AFAIK it doesn't allow 
> post-mortem debugging.
> My variant builds with RelWithDebInfo (as opposed to Release used by normal 
> MacPorts builds) and takes an extra step to prevent that debug info from 
> being stripped. I've never been very good with names, so called it +nostrip.

Hmm, ok.

This is a discussion we started a while ago on MacPorts-devel, but introducing 
a dedicated debug-kde variant
never took off...

Ryan, any suggestions?

Greets,
Marko
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