On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Colin Walters wrote:
> The attached patch should mostly speak for itself. I think it's great
> that a lot of packages support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug now, but if the
> program is compiled with optimization, it's very difficult to debug.
> --- debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml 2002-03-14 13:17:48.000000000 -0500
> +++ debian-policy-3.5.6.1.hacked/policy.sgml 2002-08-17 22:36:06.000000000 -0400
> @@ -5362,10 +5362,12 @@
> If the environment variable <tt>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS</tt>
> contains the string <tt>debug</tt>, compile the software
> with debugging information (usually this involves adding the
> - <tt>-g</tt> flag to <tt>CFLAGS</tt>). This allows the
> - generation of a build tree with debugging information. If
> - the environment variable <tt>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS</tt> contains
> - the string <tt>nostrip</tt>, do not strip the files at
> + <tt>-g</tt> and the <tt>-O0</tt> flags to <tt>CFLAGS</tt>).
> + This allows the generation of a build tree with debugging
> + information; the reduced optimization ensures that the
> + debugging tools can easily analyze the program. If the
> + environment variable <tt>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS</tt> contains the
> + string <tt>nostrip</tt>, do not strip the files at
> installation time. This allows one to generate a package
> with debugging information included.<footnote>
> <p>
I like the idea. In fact I already do that for some of my packages.
Seconded.
yours,
peter
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