On 16/02/16 11:42, Levente Polyak wrote:
==> 0x00: Summary
I think this looks kind of useful, minidebug enabled binaries could help debugging and understanding certain type of crashes without the need of rebuilding and install full debug symbols.
Thanks for taking a look at this. <snip>
==> 0x04: Strange observations
Besides the package firefox, where the minidebug option had no effect at all, there was some strange effect while testing the mplayer package.
The mplayer and memcoder binaries significantly increase in size while having missing .gnu_debugdata sections. As there may be more cases affected by this issue, it should maybe be investigated before considering to enable this by default.
1) mplayer 26.95% 17M 17333304 21M 22005264
2) mencoder 25.96% 16M 16105880 20M 20286256
Whether this option is enabled or not by a distribution (including Arch) is not an issue to be discussed here. What worries me about this is that this is a sign of a bug in the implementation (particularly the lack of a .gnu_debugdata section). I'm going to need this case investigate before this gets pulled into makepkg. A