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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: allow turning off debuginfo
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:46:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F47E91D.7040800@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-f=OZVoR9wOjjEdxOyRVUCZH7fUgxBxP6UCy0XX9JAkw@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/24/2012 05:16 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 February 2012 10:39, Gerd Hoffmann<kraxel@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/08/12 13:54, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> This patch adds --{enable,disable}-debug-info switches to configure
>>> which allows to include/exclude the '-g' switch on the gcc&  ld
>>> command lines.  Not building debug info reduces ressource usage
>>> (especially disk) alot and is quite useful for test builds.
>>
>> ping?
>
> We've had this suggested before, haven't we? I quite like the
> existing "just build with -g and strip it later" approach...
> is the resource usage change really that significant?

I applied this because I see almost no harm at all in supporting this and even 
if the resource usage change is small, the benefit compared to the cost of 
maintaining this seems like a reasonable trade off.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM
>
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-24 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08 12:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: allow turning off debuginfo Gerd Hoffmann
2012-02-24 10:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-02-24 11:16   ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-24 17:52     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-02-24 19:46     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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