Generating userland debugging symbols

[Mark Johnston]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:39:00AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> I do think that something like this would be useful. But, shouldn't
> the DEBUG_FLAGS be also involved in the patch ? The goal would be
> to have debug symbols for userland staff. esp. the libraries,
> handled in a similar manner to kernel symbols.
> 
> But I do like the intent of keeping the symbols in the separate directory.

Yes, you're right. What I would probably do is have make(1) set
DEBUG_FLAGS=-g automatically if WITH_DEBUG_SYMBOLS is defined in
/etc/src.conf. I've been using the source tree at my work, which
has another Makefile and some other scripts on top of the FreeBSD build
system, so they're probably doing some things I don't know about. Based
on what I've seen however, it shouldn't be too much work to port the
necessary changes over.

-Mark