Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-23 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 December 2012 18:55, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > 2012/12/17 Ben de Groot : > > Please don't. For most users this is a waste of resources. > > > On first look it seems like waste of resources. > On second hand it makes stuff easy wrt bugreports provided by users. > And believe me when I say most

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 17-12-2012 a las 08:55 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió: [...] > I usually keep a debug file in /etc/portage/env.d and symlink it to > anything I'm working on. > > Rich > > I do the same, for example, I had end.d files for all evince related packages to get proper backtraces as I was gettin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal ha scritto: Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 18.12.2012 13:03, Sven Eden pisze: > Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 12:43:55 schrieb Marcin Mirosław: >> W dniu 18.12.2012 12:13, Sven Eden pisze: > > (snip, because this has nothing to do with the previous discussion.) > On my 32-bit machines I have... FLAGS="-O2 -march=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread Sven Eden
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 12:43:55 schrieb Marcin Mirosław: > W dniu 18.12.2012 12:13, Sven Eden pisze: (snip, because this has nothing to do with the previous discussion.) > >> On my 32-bit machines I have... > >> > >> FLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 18.12.2012 12:13, Sven Eden pisze: > Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:48:12 schrieb Walter Dnes: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Sven Eden wrote >> >>> 1) --- kde-base/kate >>> - >>> >>> Compiled with -ggdb in CFLAGS: >>> # sum=0; for file in $(equer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-18 Thread Sven Eden
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:48:12 schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Sven Eden wrote > > > 1) --- kde-base/kate > > - > > > > Compiled with -ggdb in CFLAGS: > > # sum=0; for file in $(equery f kde-base/kate | grep "\.debug") ; do > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/17/2012 02:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: >> All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with >> relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of >> forcing everybody out there using Gentoo to have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Sven Eden wrote > 1) --- kde-base/kate > - > > Compiled with -ggdb in CFLAGS: > > # sum=0; for file in $(equery f kde-base/kate | grep "\.debug") ; do > xSize=$(stat -c "%s" $file) ; sum=$((sum+xSize)) ; done ; echo "$sum" >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/17/12 2:11 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only > enabled in the developer profile. Fully seconded

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 15:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > Uh, sure, insofar as it is possible to stop doing something that > you've done exactly once... :) In general, I've heard the same suggestion touted too many times already. It's this kind of misinformation and cargo culting that often causes `strip-flags`

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > So please stop giving this stupid suggestion, which causes enough grief > as it is without being repeated once again. Uh, sure, insofar as it is possible to stop doing something that you've done exactly once... :) However, I've found

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 14:55, Rich Freeman wrote: > Tend to agree. Plus, you can always compile -O0 in such a case and > get more useful debug info besides (yes, I know this can be misleading > under some circumstances, but not all packages are glibc). No. No. No. No. No. . No. It's not "being gl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: > All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with > relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of > forcing everybody out there using Gentoo to have additional XGb for > debug, patching troublesome p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Kacper Kowalik
On 12/17/2012 11:11 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi lads, > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from > users. All trouble can be saved by asking user to recompile package with relevant flags on bug report, resolving the bug as NEEDINFO. Instead of forcing everybody o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Sven Eden
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:47:24 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: > 2012/12/17 Sven Eden : > > Hello Tomáš, > > > > on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS > > use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. > > And this is the result: (Yes, I have a dedictated partition for that.)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 December 2012 10:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi lads, > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from > users. > > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > default enabl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > I silently hope they copy the default cflags to their make.conf and > then set march and add more stuff, rather than starting from scratch. > Also we can pop-up newsitem asking them to put it into cflags ;-) You might want to get the handbo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 12:37, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > > In short FEATURES=compressdebug should be stable and default before you > (gentoo) decide for something like this. > As mentioned somewhere else in this thread some packages are on the > unbeareable side when compiled with debug information, those s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 17/12/2012 11:42, Diego Elio Pettenò ha scritto: On 17/12/2012 11:33, Sven Eden wrote: on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. That's -ggdb that increases the size. In short FEATURES=compressdebug should be stable and de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:54, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > That ain't problem, we acutally can patch in those packages to strip > the debug by default and add there useflag to not strip those for > those really needing it. No. USE=debug is for _something else_ entirely. And I'm going to kick hard whoever tries t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Ben de Groot : > Please don't. For most users this is a waste of resources. > On first look it seems like waste of resources. On second hand it makes stuff easy wrt bugreports provided by users. And believe me when I say most upstreams are pissed by gentoo reports because they lack any g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Alexandre Rostovtsev : > > The bigger problem is not disk space but memory usage at link time. Try > building something like *-webkit-* or firefox with debugging CFLAGS on a > machine with limited memory. > > That ain't problem, we acutally can patch in those packages to strip the debug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Sven Eden : > Hello Tomáš, > > on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - > march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. > And this is the result: (Yes, I have a dedictated partition for that.) > > ~ $ LC_ALL=C df -h /usr/lib/debug/. > Filesystem Size Used Avai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Hi lads, > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from > users. > > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > defau

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:26, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > I silently hope they copy the default cflags to their make.conf and > then set march and add more stuff, rather than starting from scratch. > Also we can pop-up newsitem asking them to put it into cflags ;-) > They don't, they use those coming from cata

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:33, Sven Eden wrote: > on my system I have set up everything with splitdebug enabled. My CFLAGS use - > march=native, -O2 and -ggdb. That's -ggdb that increases the size. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Ben de Groot
On 17 December 2012 18:26, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > 2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò : > > On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > >> Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > >> few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > >> default enabled and a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Sven Eden
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 11:11:38 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: > Hi lads, > lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from > users. > > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2012/12/17 Diego Elio Pettenò : > On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: >> Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite >> few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles >> default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only >> enabled in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/12/2012 11:11, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite > few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles > default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only > enabled in the developer profile. Why, somebody

[gentoo-dev] Defaulting for debug information in profiles

2012-12-17 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hi lads, lately I am having bit of problems from getting relevant debug info from users. Since we already have splitdebug for quite time (and I suppose quite few of us are using it) how about making it to default profiles default enabled and add -g to default cflags. Currently it is only enabled i