HEADS-UP: Enabling WITH_DEBUG_FILES by default
Konstantin Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 09:12:24 UTC 2015
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:39:12AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Within the next 24 hours, I will merge the release-install-debug branch
> into head, which will enable building and installing stripped debugging
> files by default.
>
> In general, this should have no significant impact, but any fallout will
> be addressed as soon as possible after the merge.
>
> Those that do not want debugging files built/installed by default should
> add 'WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=1' to src.conf(5). This will also be noted in
> UPDATING.
Is there a knob to generate and install debug symbols for the libraries
and rtld only ? I remember that there was some.
IMO having debugging information for all binaries is just an overkill.
Nobody debugs ls on regular basis, while debug information for C runtime
is needed often.
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