Building OpenJDK with debuginfo

[Petteri Räty]

Andrew Haley kirjoitti:
> I noticed that debugging IcedTea is difficult, and I've found the core
> problem: ecj defaults to generating minimal debuginfo, basically just
> line numbers.  GNU/Linux distributions usually have a rule that
> debuginfo is enabled for all packages, and I can't think of any reason
> not to do that now with IcedTea.  Debuginfo is going to be non-negotiable
> in a real release package anyway.
> 
> So, I'll fix the Makefiles to use "-g" throughout.
> 
> Andrew.
> 

Shouldn't -g be something that is picked from CFLAGS. This is what we do
in the Gentoo OpenJDK ebuild:

103 	        # Don't pass these to make, or they'll break stuff.
104 	        export OTHER_CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
105 	        export OTHER_CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/browser/java-experimental/dev-java/openjdk/openjdk-1.7.0.0_alpha13.ebuild

Regards,
Petteri

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