Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce global dmalloc USE flag?

["Dennis Lan (dlan)" <dennis.yxun@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> On 13/06/13 01:05 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Dnia 2013-06-13, o godz. 09:35:54 "Dennis Lan (dlan)"
>> <dennis.yxun@gmail.com> napisał(a):
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>>> also 4) app-admin/conserver 5) net-nds/ypbind 6) net-fs/samba 7)
>>> net-analyzer/scli 8) net-analyzer/traceproto 6) net-misc/siproxd
>>>
>>> use dmalloc but controlled under USE=debug
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>> Do those use USE=debug solely for dmalloc or does it imply other
>> stuff? Therefore: will it be possible to use USE=dmalloc in those
>> packages?

HI mgorny, as I look into those ebuilds
all of them use the USE=debug flag for dmalloc only, not for other
debugging control
so, as your second question, of course it's possible to switch to USE=dmalloc

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> and to follow up, if we assume that USE="debug" does more than just
> build the package against the dmalloc lib (which is likely), is there

Yes, if this case exist.. then the separation would be good


> any particular benefit to USE="debug -dmalloc" ?  Or USE="dmalloc
> - -debug" ?
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I'm not sure, probably the befefits would be that we can have more
accurate/explicit control,
USE="dmalloc" is for debugging memory usage stuff (allocation, free,
fence-post overwritten control)
and USE=debug for other stuff?

This is a slightly improvement, but I'm also totally fine to keep
current state as it is.. no big deal

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