linux x64: gtest libjvm.so without debug symbols?

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

That is a mistake in JDK-8150736. My intention was to always leave debug 
symbols in the gtest libjvm.so untouched.

/Erik

On 2016-12-15 14:13, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I may be missing something very obvious, but I am not able to debug the
> gtest-libjvm (the one gtestLauncher uses, from
> hotspot/variant-server/libjvm).
>
> I build with --with-native-debug-symbols=external
> --with-debug-level=slowdebug.
>
> In the build log I see that we preserve the debug information for the
> standard libjvm.so with objcopy, but we don't for the gtest variant,
> instead we strip the debug information.
>
> Was that intentional?
>
> Thanks, Thomas