From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22114 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2015 20:42:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 22041 invoked by uid 89); 18 Feb 2015 20:42:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:41:57 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1IKfoVa002738 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:41:50 -0500 Received: from tucnak.zalov.cz (ovpn-116-28.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.28]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t1IKfmGL001560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:41:50 -0500 Received: from tucnak.zalov.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tucnak.zalov.cz (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t1IKfkQG010528; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:41:46 +0100 Received: (from jakub@localhost) by tucnak.zalov.cz (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t1IKfiNl010527; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:41:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:42:00 -0000 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Mark Wielaard Cc: "H.J. Lu" , Joel Brobecker , GCC Patches , Binutils , GDB Subject: Re: ping #3: [RFA] Add --with-libz-prefix option in config/zlib.m4 Message-ID: <20150218204144.GT1746@tucnak.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: <20150107144548.GX5432@adacore.com> <20150218120841.GD23529@adacore.com> <20150218165457.GU544@vapier> <20150218194443.GW544@vapier> <1424291541.23458.28.camel@bordewijk.wildebeest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1424291541.23458.28.camel@bordewijk.wildebeest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00497.txt.bz2 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