[RFC] Minimal Debuginfo by default

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Nov 17 14:02:00 GMT 2017


On 15/11/2017 07:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> The following concept would allow for sensible backtraces without
> installing a -debuginfo, at the expense of a moderate size increase of
> binaries (particularly with C++ code):
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MingwMiniDebugInfo
> 
> The patch for cygport would be minimal.  Is it worth the size increase?

Unrelated, but we should probably also turn back on 
--compress-debug-sections for debuginfo packages, since we should now 
have a binutils where this works...



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