[Development] Building qtwebkit with -gstabs instead of -g on certain archs

Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com
Mon Jan 6 15:26:51 CET 2014


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 02:51:41PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> The archs arm, i386, i686, mips and s390 can get their memory exhausted when 
> building QtWebkit, so at least on Debian we are replacing -g with -gstabs for 
> those archs. As I understand this comes from a suggestion by Ossi.
> 
i was only relaying info. i don't remember if that particular idea came
from allan or somebody else.

> I would like to know if you would like to have this replacement done in Qt 
> itself (ie, if you would accept a patch to do this) or if you prefer us 
> downstreamers doing it.
> 
this affects everyone making debug builds, so it should be upstream.
however, this is something the qtwebkit team needs to decide.



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