linux x64: gtest libjvm.so without debug symbols?

[Erik Joelsson]

That is the intention.

/Erik


On 2016-12-15 14:57, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> great, thank you!
>
> So, for the gtest libjvm the binary would always contain internal 
> debug symbols and we would not generate debuginfo files, right?
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Erik Joelsson 
> <erik.joelsson at oracle.com <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171310
>     <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171310> and working on it.
>
>     /Erik
>
>
>
>     On 2016-12-15 14:37, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>         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
>
>
>
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