[Freeciv] Re: Cannot run civclient... (PR#640)

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 12 Jan 2001, gc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> > That's me -- but I doubt it could produce anything valuable with
> >> > freeciv compiled without "-g" and with "-fomit-frame-pointer"..
> >> 
> >> Gack!  IMHO one should always compile with -g.  It doesn't change
> >> the output from the compiler other than the addition of debugging
> >> info, which you will typically strip on installation.
> > 
> > So what's the point of having them if at installation you remove
> > them??
> 
> So that you can look up the numbers from a coredump (or whatever).

Which numbers? One stripped, the binary will lack all symbols, I don't see
what you can do..

Also, our aim is to limit the size of the binary, and the need of proper
debugging would require building with -g, not stripping binaries, for all
binaries, and also for the whole glibc, for gtk+, etc. This is simply too
high cost.
 

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