bug#44081: qtbase strips debug info from the debug output

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Malte Frank Gerdes <malte.f.gerdes@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm trying to get debug symbols for qt related packages. I noticed that
>> those inherit from qtsvg which itself inherits from qtbase. The
>> behaviour that i see is: before the stripping phase all objects have
>> debugging info and afterwards even the separate debug files don't have
>> them anymore.
>
> You want to use the staging branch of Guix, as it already includes a
> debug output for qtbase and related packages (which inherits from its
> definition).
>
> Possibly what was missing from your experiment was the
> "--force-debug-info" configure option that prevents the Qt build system
> from stripping the debug symbols (the otherwise default behavior).  You
> can inspect commit ab6fe9d3620 to see how it was done.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Maxim