From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make dist target for Windows Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:23:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4BB44A0C.2080300@swipnet.se> References: <4BB2BB70.3090608@gmail.com> <83eij0zydg.fsf@gnu.org> <87634cdr0l.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <4BB3DE2D.7060708@gmail.com> <4BB42877.90601@gnu.org> <83oci3y893.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270106751 27285 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 07:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 09:25:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxEmg-0004Kw-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEmf-0003J8-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:25:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEmb-0003Iz-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45470 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxEm4-0003FA-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxElX-0000MB-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.4]:43609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxEky-0000GV-3h; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-h11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A0DE9EAA; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:23:58 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.110] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgNDAO7ms0tV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACHY5NWDAEBAQE1LbNthQEE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,346,1267398000"; d="scan'208";a="58094487" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2010 09:23:57 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635D87FA01A; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:23:56 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) In-Reply-To: <83oci3y893.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123007 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev: >> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:00:39 +0800 >> From: Jason Rumney >> >> On 01/04/2010 07:43, Christoph wrote: >>> Can we provide debug symbols as additional download? Or do you have to >>> have it compiled with debug support? >> I'm not sure that gcc supports having debug symbols in a separate file, > > It's not a GCC option, it's an objcopy option (--only-keep-debug). > See the section in the GDB manual pointed to by Jan for more details. > > However, as this option is a close relative of `strip', I'm afraid > that it might not work, for the same (unknown) reasons stripping the > dumped Emacs executable doesn't work. How does the breakage manifest itself? It seems to work on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), but I haven't run it extensively. Fedora has shipped Emacs with separate debug-info files for a long time. Jan D.