On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote: > > Hi Fabio, > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 09:22:55PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM Kaleb Keithley <kkeit...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM Mark Wielaard <m...@fedoraproject.org> > > > wrote: > > >> It certainly looks that way. The ar format is not ideal to rewrite in > > >> place, which is why it is unpacked and repacked like this. Which isn't > > >> super efficient, but somewhat surprising it takes 20+ hours... That > > >> must be a pretty big .a file. > > > > I'm a bit confused here. > > Why would a change that *stops* stripping debuginfo from .a files > > cause such a lot of processing to be done to .a files? > > The debuginfo inside the static archives used to be stripped because > it wasn't very useful. The change didn't just stop the stripping it > also updates the debuginfo to be actually useful to > include. Specifically it rewrites the debuginfo to include to correct > source file paths as shipped in the corresponding debugsources package > (which also means those might now include more source files). > > More background in > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StaticLibraryPreserveDebuginfo
Thank you, that makes more sense now! I missed this part of the Change Proposal. Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
