[oe] [PATCH] package.bbclass: introduce KEEP_GNU_DEBUGLINK

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 14:58:37 UTC 2009


On (17/07/09 15:20), Roman I Khimov wrote:
> Currently we're keeping .gnu_debuglink section in files after stripping them.
> It makes binaries from successive builds a bit different, which is not good
> in situations where you want them to be exactly the same (identical checksums).
> 
> So, introducing KEEP_GNU_DEBUGLINK which can be set to zero to disable this
> behavior and get identical result on successive builds for most of the
> packages.

you lose debugging these binaries if you remove this section. So may be
there should be options like DEBUG_STRIP, STRIP and NO_STRIP and only one of
which could be used.

Thx

-Khem




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