On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURES, instead of removing the > > generated > > files, would disable the building of them completely, mainly because "work" > > systems with limited CPU, RAM and HDD space would probably prefer not having > > to create and store them :) > > Err, maybe I am incorrect, but isn't it more "work" to ungenerate them > (using strip) then to just not install them?
The debug info gets built into the binary by gcc. We copy out the debug info using objcopy --only-keep-debug, add a link with --gnu-debuglink and then remove it from the binary using strip. Without FEATURES=splitdebug the first two steps would be omitted, making it exactly the same as what happens now. So, no more work. Ed Catmur -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
