From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 6 17:36:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2A91065693 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@freebsd.org) Received: from mail1.sandvine.com (Mail1.sandvine.com [64.7.137.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E1B8FC14 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com (192.168.222.22) by WTL-EXCH-1.sandvine.com (192.168.196.31) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.0.694.0; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:36:20 -0400 Received: by labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com (Postfix, from userid 10332) id AF98633C00; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:36:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:36:20 -0400 From: Ed Maste To: Gleb Kurtsou Message-ID: <20101106173620.GA45793@sandvine.com> References: <20101105191443.GD1437@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> <20101105204519.GA2843@tops> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101105204519.GA2843@tops> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mark Johnston Subject: Re: Userland debug symbols directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:36:22 -0000 On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > I like the idea a lot, but why not to leave symbol files in /usr/obj, The application where this is most useful (and why we implemented it originally) is the case where /usr/obj isn't available - for instance, a binary installation other than where the source tree was built. If you're going to keep /usr/obj around anyway then you can get most of the benefit by just keeping the unstripped binaries / libs in there, no? -Ed