On Sat, 2005-26-11 at 12:50 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you
> think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..)

First, I fully support solar's patch, this feature should have been
integrated into portage months ago.

> Anybody wanting to test or make use of this feature right away can grab
> a copy of my prepstrip from
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/portage_misc/prepstrip and save it to
> /usr/lib/portage/bin/prepstrip or patch portage with
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/patch_overlay/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.53_rc7-prepstrip.patch
> It requires you merge pax-utils for the scanelf util.

Second, it's often helpful for development to also have the source code
of the libraries when debugging a program (like MSFT has done for
years). Red Hat also does that, they have built a tool to extract the
list of referenced files from the debug info itself. I've made a patch
to integrate that tool into portage and an ebuild for the tool.

Patch (apply on top of solar's patch):
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tester/prepstrip-keep-sources.patch
Fully patched prepstrip:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tester/prepstrip

The debugedit ebuild is at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tester/debugedit-4.4.3-ebuild.tar.bz2


-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org