Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:07:43 +0200
Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > > Having debug symbols in the userland tools could be maybe a bit
> > > useful for example in the case of the grub-probe segfault I
> > > experienced on my mdraid experiments.
> > 
> > True, in that case it makes sense to include debug info
> 
> Agreed.  Furthermore, Debian packaging environment _expects_ packages
> to include debug info by default;  this allows us (Debian) to define
> a common variable interface to enable/disable debug symbols by
> toggling the scripts that run strip after the build.

Also, also Gentoo does the same thing -- the Gentoo ebuild system does
the stripping based on certain flags are set in the FEATURES variable
('nostrip' or 'splitdebug').

Regards,
Colin