From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <cygwin-apps-return-38834-listarch-cygwin-apps=sources.redhat.com@cygwin.com>
Received: (qmail 3300 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2017 14:02:40 -0000
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
List-Id: <cygwin-apps.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-apps-subscribe@cygwin.com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com>, <http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faqs>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Received: (qmail 3244 invoked by uid 89); 17 Nov 2017 14:02:39 -0000
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA
X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com
Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:02:37 +0000
Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46])	by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3FA20BEB	for <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:02:35 -0500 (EST)
Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161])  by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:02:35 -0500
X-ME-Sender: <xms:--sOWntBhnTj3nseEMzY4hLCocawyl8k25msL8EkQseafA-ZGT_-7w>
Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-207-28.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.207.28])	by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4907024940	for <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:02:35 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [RFC] Minimal Debuginfo by default
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
References: <c4e9140a-5993-ecb8-db72-9ca677932c9f@cygwin.com>
From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Message-ID: <2239c69d-4947-3504-2f81-ceea5d3b0500@dronecode.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:02:00 -0000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <c4e9140a-5993-ecb8-db72-9ca677932c9f@cygwin.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2

On 15/11/2017 07:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> The following concept would allow for sensible backtraces without
> installing a -debuginfo, at the expense of a moderate size increase of
> binaries (particularly with C++ code):
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MingwMiniDebugInfo
> 
> The patch for cygport would be minimal.  Is it worth the size increase?

Unrelated, but we should probably also turn back on 
--compress-debug-sections for debuginfo packages, since we should now 
have a binutils where this works...