Re: Development packages.

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

Alexander Winston <alexander.winston@comcast.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:54 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
>> On a related note, I'd also be very happy if it was a requirement to
>> build libraries with a miniumum of "-g -ggdb -gdwarf-2", and not strip
>> them.  We could provide some mechanism to automatically strip
>> binaries, surely?
>
> I believe that this was discussed before and never really got off of the
> ground because of the bandwidth issues involved.
>
> By the way, doesn't "-ggdb3" provide more verbose debugging information?

Yes, or '-g3' which is equivalent.  I find this essential when
debugging inline C++ code, such as templates.  I think

-g3 -gdwarf-2

should be the shortest way to write it.


Regards,
Roger

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