From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Mar 29 17:25:59 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F359D231E0; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:25:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from tensor.andric.com (tensor.andric.com [IPv6:2001:470:7a58:1::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "tensor.andric.com", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 375C267E56; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:25:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:7a58::416b:f3a0:99b:694b] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:7a58:0:416b:f3a0:99b:694b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D12B315014; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:25:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Dimitry Andric Message-Id: <779FB7DC-C041-43CD-ADF2-1F5D791832A6@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_EE11392F-FEC5-4555-BA6C-B9AB94FCAF35"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: FYI: what it takes for RAM+swap to build devel/llvm40 with 4 processors or cores and WITH__DEBUG= (powerpc64 example) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:25:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170329155316.GK59667@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Mark Millard , FreeBSD Ports , FreeBSD PowerPC ML , FreeBSD Toolchain , FreeBSD Current To: Brooks Davis References: <3EDEF0B7-59C5-4648-9737-6682E18645BC@dsl-only.net> <39C60316-F905-490D-B0AB-BC24D7F351A2@dsl-only.net> <7F94CE59-D2CC-4D6F-B1CD-FF3D1F8EDCE7@FreeBSD.org> <45E32F4F-A238-47AA-8E1E-7AD4D9E857D9@dsl-only.net> <20170329155316.GK59667@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:25:59 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_EE11392F-FEC5-4555-BA6C-B9AB94FCAF35 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 29 Mar 2017, at 17:53, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 03:25:04AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: ... >> This is extreme enough that next time I synchronize >> /usr/ports and it has a devel/llvm40 update I'll >> likely rebuild devel/llvm40 without using WITH_DEBUG= . >> I'm more concerned with the time it takes than with >> the file system space involved. > > In the case of LLVM, enabling debug builds does a LOT more than adding > symbols. It's much more like enabling WITNESS and INVARIANTS in your > kernel, except that the performance of the resulting binary is much > worse than a WITNESS kernel (more like 10x slowdown). > > As Dimitry points out, these builds are of questionable value in ports > so garbage collecting the knob might be the sensable thing to do. I suggest that for the LLVM ports, the DEBUG option should set the RelWithDebInfo build type for CMake. That will give you binaries which can produce good backtraces, and a fair chance at debugging, in a pinch. -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_EE11392F-FEC5-4555-BA6C-B9AB94FCAF35 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.30 iEYEARECAAYFAljb7hsACgkQsF6jCi4glqNTCACghnz91bTIcsVeRILZ8G99/Qr1 QIEAn3G5vr5EwRwJ5DqfnQmJC130xw+Y =Nno0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_EE11392F-FEC5-4555-BA6C-B9AB94FCAF35--