On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:06:35AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > During code review for xen I noticed that --enable-debug-info would > still strip the binaries because strip_opt= defaults to yes. > If --enable-debug-info is passed to configure it has to be assumed > that not only the compiled binaries have debugsymbols, also the > installed binaries should keep the symbols. The requirement to pass > also --disable-strip looks odd.
Perhaps package maintainers rely on installed binaries not having debug symbols? It's common to split the debug symbols into separate ELF files that are shipped in a different package (qemu-debuginfo or similar). If you make this change and packagers are unaware, they could accidentally ship qemu packages that contain the full debug symbols in the binaries. That said, I don't really know... The package maintainers can give you a definitive answer whether or not this is a good thing to do. Stefan
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