On 11 February 2015 at 21:39, Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Within the next 24 hours, I will merge the release-install-debug branch
> into head, which will enable building and installing stripped debugging
> files by default.
>
> In general, this should have no significant impact, but any fallout will
> be addressed as soon as possible after the merge.
>
> Those that do not want debugging files built/installed by default should
> add 'WITHOUT_DEBUG_FILES=1' to src.conf(5).  This will also be noted in
> UPDATING.

Note that the debug files do consume a reasonably large amount of disk
space in both the OBJDIR and in the installed location under
/usr/lib/debug. Users with limited disk space will probably want to
disable them.  As an example, the installed debug data on my laptop is
about 2GB.

-Ed
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