Re: Bug#83924: upgrading-checklist.text should mention DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS specifically
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
Ian> IMO the right thing to do is to always build with -g and strip
Ian> at `install' time (ie, when the programs are copied into the
Ian> debian/tmp directory, before dpkg-deb is run).
Why is it the right thing to do? I understand that it is the
easy thing to do, yes. Let us examine this in more detail.
a) Compile with -g
i) Takes more time
ii) Takes more disk space
Advantage: to debug, one only needs to run the executable
created, since it is not stripped.
b) One needs to modify the Makefile, and when needs to create a
debugging version, one recompiles with an option.
Given that most people do not have precompiled versions lying
around most of the time, and compiling again with the debug options
is not really all that onerous, and given the space and time
requirements of autobuilders, I am not at all convinced that the
right thing is to build debugged and strip before packaging.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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