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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:47:37 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: preserve debug symbols with
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>

On Thu, Sep 25, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 25 September 2014 09:06, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> > During code review for xen I noticed that --enable-debug-info would
> > still strip the binaries because strip_opt= defaults to yes.
> > If --enable-debug-info is passed to configure it has to be assumed
> > that not only the compiled binaries have debugsymbols, also the
> > installed binaries should keep the symbols. The requirement to pass
> > also --disable-strip looks odd.
> 
> I think defaulting to build with debug but strip on install
> makes sense. It follows for example how Debian recommend
> building things:
>  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html
> and means that your installed binaries don't have the
> extraneous debug info but you can keep the build tree
> to make sense of backtraces etc later.

make install DESTIDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT will also remove debug symbols,
even if the rpmbuild helper scripts would be able to extract them into a
separate -debuginfo package.

So will --disable-strip remain for ever? Can I depend on that?

Olaf