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qtbase strips debug info from the debug output

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Malte Frank Gerdes <malte.f.gerdes <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44081-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44081: qtbase strips debug info from the debug output
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:55:43 -0400

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Malte Frank Gerdes <malte.f.gerdes <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm trying to get debug symbols for qt related packages. I noticed that
>> those inherit from qtsvg which itself inherits from qtbase. The
>> behaviour that i see is: before the stripping phase all objects have
>> debugging info and afterwards even the separate debug files don't have
>> them anymore.
>
> You want to use the staging branch of Guix, as it already includes a
> debug output for qtbase and related packages (which inherits from its
> definition).
>
> Possibly what was missing from your experiment was the
> "--force-debug-info" configure option that prevents the Qt build system
> from stripping the debug symbols (the otherwise default behavior).  You
> can inspect commit ab6fe9d3620 to see how it was done.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Maxim

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