Bug 58773 – [GTK] Release builds should have debug symbols

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Philippe Normand]

To match Mac port nomenclature:

--release: build with -O2 -g
--production: build with -O2
--debug: build with -O0 -g

[Philippe Normand]

Production in our case would simply be not Debug and not Release. eg: ./configure --disable-debug --disable-release (both are disabled by default anyway).

[Philippe Normand]

Created attachment 90011 [details]
proposed patch

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Two points here:

 * this will make the build take a lot more time, it will possibly be close to a debug build
 * in Debian we always build with -g anyways, and then split the symbols off to their own package

I'm OK with this in principle. I think we should keep the EWS building without -g, though, otherwise it's going to lag heavily.

[Philippe Normand]

For the EWS doing a simple build-webkit --gtk will do a Production build.

[Martin Robinson]

Comment on attachment 90011 [details]
proposed patch

I think the debug, release, production terminology might be unusual to people familiar with configure, make, make install. Maybe it would make sense to have the configure flag something like --enable-debug-symbols or even just override the CPPFLAGS manually. What do you think?

[Philippe Normand]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (From update of attachment 90011 [details])
> I think the debug, release, production terminology might be unusual to people familiar with configure, make, make install. Maybe it would make sense to have the configure flag something like --enable-debug-symbols 

hum yes make sense indeed! I'll upload a new patch

> or even just override the CPPFLAGS manually. What do you think?

Not sure that would integrate well with build-webkit...

[Philippe Normand]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Production in our case would simply be not Debug and not Release. eg: ./configure --disable-debug --disable-release (both are disabled by default anyway).

That was a wrong assumption, the default build configuration is Release. Meaning that by default dbg symbols would be included.

So not sure what to do to have a build without dbg symbols using build-webkit. I don't think setting CXXFLAGS manually would work because build-webkit when calling configure would anyway insert the -g switch there.

On mac the build configuration can be changed by a Configuration file the product directory. But that doesn't feel very intuitive (IMHO).

I think that leaves us with a new build-webkit option, --production maybe? That would enable build with optimizations and without dbg symbols. Opinions?

[Philippe Normand]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 63318 ***