On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:24 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > > 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? > > There is no fixed size here and depends on the number of packages you > have and the CFLAGS passed to the programs you build. > Naturally if you start building all your code with > CFLAGS="-g3 -ggdb" your going to end up with a larger debug info.
Of course I will be compiling with CFLAGS="-g3 -ggdb" :) The reason I don't do it now is because debug info: 1) makes binaries larger 2) makes binaries slower ( in my experience ( may have to do with 1) ) And I don't ( not sure if anyone does ) care about any non-gdb debugger. So, can you give us a wild guess about the disk space ? How much does it take on your system and how many packages do you have installed ? And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source to be present ? -- Cheers, Ivan Yosifov. -- [email protected] mailing list
