On Sun May 24, 2020 at 03:09:42PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> There are some special needs ports  like cmake and qmake with labyrinthine
> options to figure out what to build "release" and you get no debug info.
> "debug" and you get waaaay too much stuff.

You can simply use CONFIG += force_debug_info to get debug symbols even
in release mode for qmake applications. (MODQMAKE_ARGS +=
CONFIG+=force_debug_info) do you remember?

> 
> the tweak I committed  a few days ago does cut through the red tape...
> 
> Tool wants special treatment to accommodate DEBUG_PACKAGES  ? Just say no.
> If it is too complicated to compile with -g *and* prevent the tool from
> running strip during fake, just *let it* run strip.
> 
> The secret is NOT to tell it that this particular "strip" does nothing ;)
> 
> 
> What matters is the result.
> 
> Aint nobody got time for that s***.
> 

I did the work for CMake too, did anybody care? No! It doesn't matter
now fake-strip kill them all

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