From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KR82s-0007xc-Kg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:08:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR82q-0007te-Pr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:08:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR82m-0007iV-4m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:08:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54312 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR82l-0007iB-TU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:08:51 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56193) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KR82l-0005q1-Eo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:08:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KR7vF-0004Kj-Tx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:01:06 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KR81f-0006om-UR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:07:44 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:07:43 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807085045.4afa096f@gibibit.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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 16:08:57 -0000 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."