Re: Automatic debug symbol generation

[Bob Rossi]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:08:16PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 2009-04-23 14:51, Bob Rossi wrote:
> >
> >>> What's the advantage over just installing binaries into $(bindir)
> >>> without stripping them? **Non-brain-damaged** systems won't
> >>> load them from the file anyway for normal execution.
> 
> [emphasis added by me]
> 
> >On mingw/msys the executables with debug grow to be huge (10x the size).
> >Before stripping, my bin dir is 920 megs. After stripping it's 72 megs.
> >The mere size of the executables cause **windows** to load them rather slow.
> >If you have to start a program many times, as I do, it's noticable.
> 
> But yeah, even if this seems like a case of brain-damage,
> this is _the_ argument for me to support having this make target.

I'm finding that if I do something like this,

install-exec-hook:
  for prog in foo bar; do \
    objcopy --only-keep-debug $prog.exe $prog.dbg; \
    objcopy --strip-debug $prog.exe; \
    objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$prog.dbg $prog.exe; \
  done

it takes so much longer to do the install rule, which causes me
to not really save any time....to bad.

Bob Rossi