On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:40:34PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> On Sun May 24, 2020 at 03:09:42PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > There are some special needs ports  like cmake and qmake with labyrinthine
> > options to figure out what to build "release" and you get no debug info.
> > "debug" and you get waaaay too much stuff.
> 
> You can simply use CONFIG += force_debug_info to get debug symbols even
> in release mode for qmake applications. (MODQMAKE_ARGS +=
> CONFIG+=force_debug_info) do you remember?

Actually, no, I don't remember... it's yet another long documentation to
read through...  I did cut through in shotcut.

If there's an option, why doesn't qmake.port.mk does it automatically ?

> > the tweak I committed  a few days ago does cut through the red tape...
> > 
> > Tool wants special treatment to accommodate DEBUG_PACKAGES  ? Just say no.
> > If it is too complicated to compile with -g *and* prevent the tool from
> > running strip during fake, just *let it* run strip.
> > 
> > The secret is NOT to tell it that this particular "strip" does nothing ;)
> > 
> > 
> > What matters is the result.
> > 
> > Aint nobody got time for that s***.

> I did the work for CMake too, did anybody care? No! It doesn't matter
> now fake-strip kill them all

That's still cool that you looked at it... I hope it's going to be automatic.

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