Re: Questions regarding substitutes with debug output

[Olivier Dion via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2022, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> When the package uses the gnu-build-system, it is usually just adding a
> "debug" outputs and the copying of the stripped symbols to this output
> is taken care of automatically.  Some packages use their own flags or a
> release build without symbols in which case just adding "debug" alone
> won't be enough.

Right.  My guess is that project using autotools are handled
automagically.  Although, I don't know of any configuration option for
splitting debug symbols from binaries in autotools.  For other build
systems, it's a case by case study.

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Olivier Dion
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