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

[Khem Raj]

On (17/07/09 21:50), Roman I Khimov wrote:
> On Пятница 17 июля 2009 18:58:37 Khem Raj wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > So may be
> > there should be options like DEBUG_STRIP, STRIP and NO_STRIP and only one
> > of which could be used.
> 
> As of now, we have INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP that switches stripping, but it has 
> strong on/off semantics, so I don't think we can change that. We can replace 
> it with some common PACKAGE_STRIP setting that would work like this:
> 
> # No stripping
> PACKAGE_STRIP=no
> # Strip but leave .gnu_debuglink for debugging
> PACKAGE_STRIP=debug
> # Strip everything
> PACKAGE_STRIP=full
> 
> But that's more intrusive and will force distro and local config updates. I 
> can do it if everyone is OK with such change.

go for it

> 
> And, BTW, we also have DEBUG_BUILD setting, although that just switches 
> compile flags from what I see.
> 
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