From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxOp-0004n7-Gm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxOk-0004j8-Q1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55980 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmxOk-0004j5-N1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:02 -0400 Received: from mailout.artfiles.de ([80.252.97.80]:42268) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmxOk-00080U-96 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:02 -0400 Received: from [77.128.113.181] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) auth=rr@bttr-software.de by mailout.artfiles.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1LmxOb-0004vt-8C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:45:53 +0100 Message-ID: <49CBF790.1020504@bttr-software.de> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:45:52 +0100 From: Robert Riebisch MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove -s flag in Makefile References: <49CBCE91.1030307@redhat.com> <20090326.130258.-1749707056.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090326190810.GH3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090326.133039.-1185935861.imp@bsdimp.com> <49CBF6D7.6090608@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <49CBF6D7.6090608@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > No. binutils and gdb can handle debuginfo being stored in separate > files these days. The usual packaging procedure is to install > unstripped, then split away debuginfo to separate files for a separate > package, so you end up with one $software and one $software-debuginfo > package. By default only $software is installed, but if needed you can > install get debuginfo too without having to compile the package manually. > > I'd tend to keep the default behavior to install stripped. There should > be an easy way out for packaging tools, they should be able to override > the default without having to patch the Makefile(s). Some configure > script option should do the trick. Agreed. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/