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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: building world with debugging symbols
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On Friday 05 March 2010 05:28:39 Alexander Best wrote:

> any suggestions on how to successfully build world with debugging symbols
>  are welcome.

Use DEBUG_FLAGS instead:

DEBUG_FLAGS=-g

The build system knows not to strip the binaries when that's defined, too.

-- 
Bruce Cran