2017-10-02 1:27 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: > On 10/1/2017 8:22 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> 2017-10-02 1:20 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: >>> On 10/1/2017 8:18 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >>>> 2017-10-02 0:55 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: >>>>> Do it during install instead, like with the libraries. >>>>> >>>>> There's no benefit making a stripped copy of the CLI tools in the >>>>> build folder. Doing it during install saves build time and storage >>>>> space. >>>> >>>> This makes it much more difficult to request backtrace etc. >>>> from users. >>> >>> How so? The installed binaries are always stripped (unless configured >>> with --disable-stripping), with or without this patch. >> >> We currently simply ask for "ffmpeg_g" output, even a user >> who has no idea about debugging either has this executable >> or not. > > Then we start asking for ffmpeg output. We always request testing and > backtraces using git head, and after this patch that will always be an > unstripped binary, so I don't get how this is an issue.
External packagers provide current binaries for all major operating systems, so I don't understand how asking current git head is related to asking debug information. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
