Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature Request: compiling debug + symbol install ebuild?

[Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@devrieze.net>]

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 10:49, Yannick Koehler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	Recently I hitted a problem with valgrind which required me to re-compiled
> certain library already installed on my system.  This triggered some
> thoughts as to how could gentoo support a debugging scenario.  Has anyone
> though of something in this area?
>
> 	I'm thinking of something like emerge --with-debug libxml which would then
> do most of the same stuff as normal except that it would run ./configure
> with --enable-debug or appropriate options to trigger the gcc -g flag and
> before cleaning up the temp/work folder from /usr/portage it would install
> in a debug folder the source file so that gdb could find the symbol when
> debugging the libxml compiled using that technique.
>
> 	The problem I hit is that I am unaware how gdb retrieve the source file.
> What path he looks for first etc, in order to install the source at the
> correct location.  Also great would be to have only the source installed
> and cleaning the rest (object etc...) unless someone set the maintainer
> autoclean to off.

Make a bug for this. I agree with your request.

Paul

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