Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:55:48 +0100 From: xorquewasp@googlemail.com To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do not strip, compile with debugging symbols Message-ID: <20080717005548.GA51632@logik.internal.network> In-Reply-To: <487E9466.5010701@delphij.net> References: <20080716234933.GA85290@logik.internal.network> <487E9466.5010701@delphij.net>
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On 20080716 17:37:58, Xin LI wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > xorquewasp@googlemail.com wrote: > | Hello. > | > | What's the correct way to ensure that ports are built with '-g' > | and that binaries/libraries created are not stripped? I'm assuming > | the first one involves setting CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf (admittedly, > | it's apparently not supported but I'm not building world with this > | setting anyway). > | > | The second, I'm not so sure about. I thought I'd heard of a NO_STRIP > | setting but if it exists, it's not documented. > > I think the setting is spelled as 'WITH_DEBUG=yes' which will add '-g' > and remove stripping. However, it still depends on the ported software > whether they will strip, most times they will obey the settings (if not > then it's a bug that should have fixed anyway). Hi. Yes, that does seem to work. The only problem is that it also disables any optimization flags (I was hoping to compile with -O2 -g as I don't need to do in-depth debugging, just have decent stack traces). I tried setting CFLAGS to '-O2' but WITH_DEBUG seems to override this, too. xw
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