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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:07:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807160743.GA14153@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807085045.4afa096f@gibibit.com>

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.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 14:42 [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system Colin D Bennett
2008-08-05 15:05 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-05 15:11   ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-05 15:23     ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-05 20:14 ` Robert Millan
2008-08-05 20:50   ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-05 21:54     ` Robert Millan
2008-08-07  0:26       ` Isaac Dupree
2008-08-07  7:37       ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-07 15:50         ` Colin D Bennett
2008-08-07 16:07           ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-08-07 17:43             ` Colin D Bennett

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