[gentoo-dev] debug symbol

[gentoo-dev] debug symbol

[Bruno Clermont]

I didn't find any mailing-list archive, so this question might been 
already debated.

The 'debug' USE variable, if set to -debug, still let the libraries 
(and some binaries) un-stripped.

Is it a good idea to add a variable to force a strip of debug symbols, 
and perform all install(1) with -s or strip manually before 
install/build the binary package?

I have some systems where smaller is better, so ~15-20 Mb of debug 
symbols is an important gain.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] debug symbol

[Spider]

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:26:13 -0400
Bruno Clermont <bruno@gnome.ca> wrote:

> I didn't find any mailing-list archive, so this question might been 
> already debated.
> 
> The 'debug' USE variable, if set to -debug, still let the libraries 
> (and some binaries) un-stripped.
> 
> Is it a good idea to add a variable to force a strip of debug symbols,
> 
> and perform all install(1) with -s or strip manually before 
> install/build the binary package?
> 
> I have some systems where smaller is better, so ~15-20 Mb of debug 
> symbols is an important gain.
> 
> 
FEATURES="nostrip"  the FEATURE to strip is on-by-default unless
explicitly removed inside an ebuild.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] debug symbol

[Bruno Clermont]

On Lundi, avri 7, 2003, at 04:27 America/Montreal, Spider wrote:
> Bruno Clermont <bruno@gnome.ca> wrote:
>> I didn't find any mailing-list archive, so this question might been
>> already debated.
>> The 'debug' USE variable, if set to -debug, still let the libraries
>> (and some binaries) un-stripped.
>> Is it a good idea to add a variable to force a strip of debug symbols,
>> and perform all install(1) with -s or strip manually before
>> install/build the binary package?
>> I have some systems where smaller is better, so ~15-20 Mb of debug
>> symbols is an important gain.
> FEATURES="nostrip"  the FEATURE to strip is on-by-default unless
> explicitly removed inside an ebuild.

I'v seen that, but on a freshly installed system, with -debug, all 
libraries are not stripped.
This rule seem to apply only on binaries.


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