Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

[Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/17/2012 11:11 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Hi lads,
> lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users.

All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with
relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of
forcing everybody out there using Gentoo to have additional XGb for
debug, patching troublesome packages like webkit-gtk etc. Bug without
valid data is by definition... invalid?

I'm pretty amused by this thread, cause *you* taught me that ^^. I had
once the very same idea :)
Cheers,
Kacper

> Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite
> few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles
> default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only
> enabled in the developer profile.
> 
> This results in 2 gb data in /usr/lib/debug for my system which is not
> that bad with current disk sizes and it saves users quite some time
> when i have to request them to recompile half of their system with
> debug info just to get idea how to fix their issue.
> 
> I would go even for compressdebug feature but that one needs more time
> as some packages like glibc fails to merge with it and you need newer
> gdb to work with it.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
> 



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