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Re: ping #3: [RFA] Add --with-libz-prefix option in config/zlib.m4
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:41:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: ping #3: [RFA] Add --with-libz-prefix option in config/zlib.m4
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 09:32:21PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > Can you elaborate?
>
> That doesn't seem like a smart default. And why is is Linux/x86 only?
> Shouldn't that be something that is done explicitly by a distro
> configuring binutils after making sure it actually is beneficial
> (debuginfo is often compressed in a different way, on the package/file
> level or with dwz). And after making sure all tools actually work with
Yeah, dwz doesn't handle those, I think debugedit used by rpm doesn't
either. When stripping into files, it would seem to be smarter to just
compress the separate debug files rather than compressing individual
sections anyway.
Jakub