On 01/04/13 00:13, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 03/31/2013 05:08 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 27/03/13 12:49, Allan McRae wrote: >>> On 27/03/13 12:22, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >>>> With pacman 4.1 just around the corner, we'll be getting support for >>>> split debug information soon. >>>> >>>> I would like to recommend "-gdwarf-4 -fvar-tracking-assignments" as >>>> our default debug flags in makepkg.conf. These flags should allow for >>>> better debug information in the presence of optimization (less <value >>>> optimized out>; see man gcc). >>> >>> This is probably a better reference than the man page: >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html >>> >>>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Note with gcc-4.8: >>> >>> DWARF4 is now the default when generating DWARF debug information. When >>> -g is used on a platform that uses DWARF debugging information, GCC will >>> now default to -gdwarf-4 -fno-debug-types-section. >>> >> >> Any comments? You have ~12 hours... >> >> I will use "-g -fvar-tracking-assignments" if no-one comments otherwise. >> >> Allan >> > > +1 > > Maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about debug packages in general. > Do we enable for all our packages? > Are we adding them into extra directly or are we creating a special > repository like [debug] ? >
I will add a glibc-debug package so I can get rid of all the custom stripping and just have that as a dep for gcc/valgrind. I have no intention of adding debug packages for anything else (unless it becomes a distro policy to include them). Allan
