On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:11, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/15/06, Olivier Crête <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use the splitdebug instead of nostrip? And make building with -g > > the default, then tell small HD users how to disable it in the docs. And > > it needs to disable -fomit-frame-pointer at least on x86. I've been > > building my whole system with splitdebug and yes it does take a lot of > > space, but its really useful.
a good idea ... > No argument against splitdebug, but my guess is that it would be > useless for 99.97% of users, and would lead to complaints on -user > about how much disk space gentoo consumes compared to <insert least > favorite distribution here>, so it should not be the default. ... and we just make it dynamic to get best of both worlds if user has splitdebug in FEATURES, then we skip adding nostrip to FEATURES, but if user has -splitdebug in FEATURES, we add nostrip to FEATURES -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
