do not strip, compile with debugging symbols

[Xin LI]

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xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
| 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.
|>
|> 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.

Maybe you want DEBUG_FLAGS='-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -g'?

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