Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: allow turning off debuginfo

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/24/2012 05:16 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 February 2012 10:39, Gerd Hoffmann<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 02/08/12 13:54, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > This patch adds --{enable,disable}-debug-info switches to configure
> > > which allows to include/exclude the '-g' switch on the gcc&  ld
> > > command lines.  Not building debug info reduces ressource usage
> > > (especially disk) alot and is quite useful for test builds.
> >
> > ping?
>
> We've had this suggested before, haven't we? I quite like the
> existing "just build with -g and strip it later" approach...
> is the resource usage change really that significant?

I applied this because I see almost no harm at all in supporting this and even 
if the resource usage change is small, the benefit compared to the cost of 
maintaining this seems like a reasonable trade off.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM