Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-28 Thread Philipp Thomas
* JRS (j...@hug.gs) [20090427 23:22]: > Redhat and Debian derived distributions ship -debug and -dbg packages > which put symbol-only files under /usr/lib/debug. openSUSE/SLES use -debuginfo and -debugsource packages. The former install symbol-only files und /usr/lib/debug while the latter instal

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-27 Thread JRS
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:47:42PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * JRS wrote on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:23:13PM CEST: > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:01:18AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > I don't yet see how degrading gracefully is easily possible with the > > > functionality you propose,

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* JRS wrote on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:23:13PM CEST: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:01:18AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > I don't yet see how degrading gracefully is easily possible with the > > functionality you propose, as a program to remove all but the debug > > symbols is AFAIK not present

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-25 Thread JRS
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:01:18AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Well, one important bit for features that Automake aims to offer is > that, while we don't mind exploiting the better functionality present > on powerful systems like GNU/Linux, we would like to be able to degrade > gracefully on l

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jason, all, * Jason Spence wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:01:20AM CEST: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: > > > I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to > > > me, hmm, wou

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jason, * JRS wrote on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:57:53PM CEST: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01:20PM -0700, Jason Spence wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Just get the git tree here: > > > > > > git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git > >

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-23 Thread JRS
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01:20PM -0700, Jason Spence wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Just get the git tree here: > > > > git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git > > cd automake > > ./bootstrap > > > > and then get hacking. README, tests

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-23 Thread Bob Rossi
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:08:16PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2009-04-23 14:51, Bob Rossi wrote: > > > >>> What's the advantage over just installing binaries into $(bindir) > >>> without stripping them? **Non-brain-damaged** systems won't > >>> load them from the file anyway for

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2009-04-23 14:51, Bob Rossi wrote: > >>> What's the advantage over just installing binaries into $(bindir) >>> without stripping them? **Non-brain-damaged** systems won't >>> load them from the file anyway for normal execution. [emphasis added by me] >On mingw/msys the executables wi

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-23 Thread Bob Rossi
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:01:20PM -0700, Jason Spence wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Hello, First off, I want to say thank you, for bringing this feature to my attention. This could be an excellent addition to our build system. > > * JRS wrote on W

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-22 Thread Jason Spence
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:33:47AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello, > > * JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: > > I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to > > me, hmm, wouldn't it be nice if automake had default targets for > > installing symbols?

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2009-04-22 07:33, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >* JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: >> I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to >> me, hmm, wouldn't it be nice if automake had default targets for >> installing symbols? >> >> For example, make in

Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

2009-04-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * JRS wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:02:55AM CEST: > I was setting up build infrastructure once again when it occurred to > me, hmm, wouldn't it be nice if automake had default targets for > installing symbols? > > For example, make install-syms could do objcopy --only-keep-debug on > th