do not strip, compile with debugging symbols

[xorquewasp at googlemail.com]

On 20080716 17:37:58, Xin LI wrote:
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> xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
> | Hello.
> |
> | What's the correct way to ensure that ports are built with '-g'
> | and that binaries/libraries created are not stripped? I'm assuming
> | the first one involves setting CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf (admittedly,
> | it's apparently not supported but I'm not building world with this
> | setting anyway).
> |
> | The second, I'm not so sure about. I thought I'd heard of a NO_STRIP
> | setting but if it exists, it's not documented.
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> I think the setting is spelled as 'WITH_DEBUG=yes' which will add '-g'
> and remove stripping.  However, it still depends on the ported software
> whether they will strip, most times they will obey the settings (if not
> then it's a bug that should have fixed anyway).

Hi.

Yes, that does seem to work. The only problem is that it also disables
any optimization flags (I was hoping to compile with -O2 -g as I don't
need to do in-depth debugging, just have decent stack traces).

I tried setting CFLAGS to '-O2' but WITH_DEBUG seems to override this,
too.

xw