From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9XB-0005ng-5v for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9X9-0005mZ-4i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9X2-0005jk-SD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57141 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9X2-0005jd-GU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:12 -0400 Received: from gateway02.websitewelcome.com ([67.18.36.20]:36237) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KR9X0-0002Az-15 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:12 -0400 Received: (qmail 20806 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2008 17:57:29 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway02.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2008 17:57:29 -0000 Received: from c-67-185-142-228.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.185.142.228]:60039 helo=localhost) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KR9Wr-0006OM-1u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:44:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:43:03 -0700 From: Colin D Bennett To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20080807104303.09381096@gibibit.com> In-Reply-To: <20080807160743.GA14153@thorin> References: <20080805074229.3e5862c5@gibibit.com> <20080805201403.GD1113@thorin> <20080805135021.55c9a2e8@gibibit.com> <20080805215402.GA4756@thorin> <1218094642.4021.7.camel@fz.local> <20080807085045.4afa096f@gibibit.com> <20080807160743.GA14153@thorin> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:44:19 -0000 On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:07:43 +0200 Robert Millan 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