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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Enabling debugging symbols only for specific packages
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:43:34 +0200
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On 01/10/2011 09:28 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 1/10/2011 1:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Is there a way to enable debugging symbols only for some packages?  I
>> need to do that for about 15 packages.  Currently, all I can do is edit
>> make.conf all the time when emerging one of those and add "-g" to CFLAGS
>> and "splitdebug" to FEATURES.  But I *always* forget about it the first
>> time, ending up building twice.
>
> I think you can drop a file in /etc/portage/env for these packages to
> change the variables, something like:
>
> /etc/portage/env/sys-apps/portage/bashrc:
> 	FEATURES="${FEATURES} splitdebug"
> 	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -g"

Doesn't seem to work.  When emerging, I get:

/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1676: source: 
/etc/portage/env/sys-apps/portage: is a directory