Re: lib/54449: _pic.a libraries contain unwanted debug information

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/54449; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
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 Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: lib/54449: _pic.a libraries contain unwanted debug information
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:56:55 +0300

 Historically the libfoo.a libraries never had debugging symbols, this is =
 why we have the libfoo_g.a variant which is controlled by ${MKDEBUGLIB}.
 Building a system with DBG=3D-g to get the same effect (putting =
 debugging info in libfoo.a) was never guaranteed to work.
 
 The fact that libfoo_pic.a ended up with debugging symbols looks like an =
 accident to me.
 In any case, I am not dogmatic about it and let's decide how we want it =
 to work and fix it.=