Wayne, Stripping debug stuff is typical Gentoo. Search the Gentoo.org docs for info on how to keep debugging symbols in the final output.
I looked at it years ago but haven't ever actually done it myself. HTH, Mark On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > ahoy all, > > when trying to build ardour-2.9999 from the Pro-Audio overlay with > debugging enabled, unfortunately the debug USE flag has no effect. i have > confirmed this numerous times. > > there seem to be 2 problems with the ebuild: > > 1. the debug USE flag sets a variable ARDOUR_DEBUG, while the scons > build system of Ardour 2.x is looking for DEBUG > 2. even after manually fixing the above problem, at the end of the > build process, before installation, a "strip" command runs, which i believe > is removing all the debugging symbols from the compiled code regardless of > whether the debug USE flag is set. unfortunately, i do not see where this > stripping is set/unset in the ebuild. can anyone shed some light on this? > > > peace, w > > > -- http://wayne.in-giro.org > >
