From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eg5kD-0004wG-Np for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:29:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQJSM62016845; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:28:22 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAQJNcrH010142 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:23:39 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eg5e5-0007dL-Vf for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:23:38 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Eg5cI-0001mp-4m for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:21:46 +0100 Received: from 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:21:46 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:21:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (defult or not?) Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:20:06 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1133027430.5317.307.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (X11/20051124) In-Reply-To: <1133027430.5317.307.camel@localhost> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6f672002-4e2c-4194-aee1-2bf69289cf2f X-Archives-Hash: b2b97d9902391f6bb0f48376d128e7ef Ned Ludd wrote: > Good afternoon, > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > info. Having a split debug allows us to retain all the advantages of > stripping executables while gaining the ability to properly debug > executables in bfd aware programs. It's been in testing with a small > hand full of devs and works quite well, but before it's pushed in we > would like to get input from our devs & users. > > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. How much space are we talking about? I like on-by-default, along with a feature option to turn it off. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list