On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:18 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 27/11/2005-13:54:33(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > > 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 :) > > Wouldn't that break binary packages? I.e., if a binary package is built > on a system with FEATURES=-splitdebug and then merged on a system with > FEATURES=splitdebug the debug info would be missing.
There's nothing to break. The only program that looks for debug symbols is gdb; if they're not there it does what it does currently; print "(no debugging symbols found)". Ed Catmur -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
