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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:12:19 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Enabling WITH_DEBUG_FILES by default
Message-ID:  <20150212091219.GD34251@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20150212023912.GG1302@hub.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20150212023912.GG1302@hub.FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:39:12AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Within the next 24 hours, I will merge the release-install-debug branch
> into head, which will enable building and installing stripped debugging
> files by default.
> 
> In general, this should have no significant impact, but any fallout will
> be addressed as soon as possible after the merge.
> 
> Those that do not want debugging files built/installed by default should
> add 'WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=1' to src.conf(5).  This will also be noted in
> UPDATING.

Is there a knob to generate and install debug symbols for the libraries
and rtld only ?  I remember that there was some.

IMO having debugging information for all binaries is just an overkill.
Nobody debugs ls on regular basis, while debug information for C runtime
is needed often.



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