Don't many of the GNOME packages have a debug option?  You could
specify it on a per-package basis, or perhaps just specify it in
PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS while building GNOME.  I have never used it, but I
presume it will do things like not omit the frame pointer and produce
"intact" binaries with symbol tables, etc.

--Blair

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