> On Oct. 14, 2014, 9:06 p.m., Timothy St. Clair wrote:
> > configure.ac, line 281
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/26426/diff/1/?file=714874#file714874line281>
> >
> >     Is there a reason you want to leave debug symbols out of optimized 
> > builds?  
> >     
> >     cmake has the pattern correct imho: 
> >     Release
> >     Debug
> >     ReleaseWithDebug
> >     
> >     A ReleaseWithDebug allows packagers, such as myself, to build 
> > w/debugsymbols that are stripped out into a .debuginfo package which can be 
> > used by developers for tracing "When bears attack".  Granted that it is 
> > tenuous debugging at best, but it's better then nothing. 
> >     
> >     So I think we want all three modes, stripping all debug information is 
> > not really idea.

My main motivation is to shrink the size of libmesos. Yesterday sugis in #mesos 
had one which was 213M. For the buildbot internally, full debian packages 
(which are compressed) of mesos weign in at 165M a piece (Yes, stripping 
post-build would help a lot, but why build it to begin with?). Most of this is 
debug info. Also, we build a bunch of different ways, and when libmesos is as 
big as it is, a decent amount of time ends up being spent on disk I/O reading / 
writing all the debug info when we are really just trying to ensure it builds 
on all the different platforms (Not to mention storage and file size shipping 
things around the network to centralized repositories).

The simple toggle between debug and release, removing the legacy logic gets us 
most of the benefit.

If you have a good place to point me for what is needed to get a 
'ReleaseWithDebug' info build up and running I can definitely work on adding 
that as well.


- Cody


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On Oct. 7, 2014, 10:38 p.m., Cody Maloney wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 7, 2014, 10:38 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for mesos, Benjamin Hindman and Timothy St. Clair.
> 
> 
> Repository: mesos-git
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Reworks building mesos in "debug" vs. "release". By default, mesos is now 
> built in release (no debug info, optimized build). If '--enable-debug' is 
> specified to configure, than optimization will be turned off, and debug info 
> will be turned on.
> 
> This also adds a variable 'DEBUG' to the build environment, which people can 
> use in code to see if mesos is built with debugging to enable extra 
> assertions / checks. For release builds we may want to set 'NDEBUG' which 
> removes assert()'s, but that is a seperate discussion.
> 
> Main benefits:
> 1) Getting a build to include/exclude debug information at will is feasible. 
> Before some things like using clang would forcibly enable debug info in all 
> cases
> 2) libmesos.so and the other binaries which get packaged up for use in 
> distributions shrink considerably without manually stripping post-build 
> (Improves build time, makes packaging cleaner)
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   configure.ac da1c82db31583fc81de658574b9a95628cb84dbc 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/26426/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Built with both --enable-debug and without, checking that the flags get 
> passed through correctly.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cody Maloney
> 
>

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