[gentoo-alpha] Debugging and emerge

[gentoo-alpha] Debugging and emerge

[Allen Ziegenfus]

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I've been trying to pin down some annoying crashes that I've been
experiencing so I've been trying to create debug builds of various
packages. I thought at one point that I could just say USE="debug"
emerge xfce-utils and xfce-utils would get built with debugging symbols.
I'm pretty sure this used to work in the past. 

Now, however, if I do this, -g does not get added to the gcc compile
flags and the executable is stripped. I find that I can only get a debug
build if I manually change the ebuild and add a line that says:

inherit debug

Is this how things should be or is there something wrong with my system?

I've also seen some people talk about a "no strip" flag that can be
added. How is that different from USE="debug"?

Allen

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Debugging and emerge

[Bryan Østergaard]

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> Now, however, if I do this, -g does not get added to the gcc compile
> flags and the executable is stripped. I find that I can only get a debug
> build if I manually change the ebuild and add a line that says:
> 
Add -g to CFLAGS and nostrip to FEATURES.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] Debugging and emerge

[Allen Ziegenfus]

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On the fine day of Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:59:36 +0200
Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> said very eloquently:

> Add -g to CFLAGS and nostrip to FEATURES.
> 

So is USE="debug" only for when the package itself has some debug
logging that you can turn on or off? According to the "Gentoo Linux Use
Variable Descriptions" document  it is supposed to add -g but that
doesn't happen for me. 

Allen

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