ENABLE_SYMBOLS=true does nothing

[Ruslan Kabatsayev]

Dirty workaround would be to make a wrapper around ld, which would
filter the command line and call real ld.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 04:07 PM, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>>
>> On 10/30/2012 03:42 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 30 of October 2012, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> Just noticed this today that, on master, the ENABLE_SYMBOLS=true doesn't
>>>> seem to turn on symbols.
>>>>
>>>> Does this ring a bell to anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-October/040051.html
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.  Obviously I missed that that change would eliminate
>> ENABLE_SYMBOLS option altogether.
>>
>> Anyway, sounds like not many people use this option, and I happened to
>> be one of the few that use it (?)  So, I wrote a wrapper to make to
>> revive this use case.
>
>
> ...
>
>
>> inside a module should just enable debug symbols, and nothing but symbols.
>
>
> So, this script can add -g to the CXXFLAGS, but unfortunately the symbols
> get stripped during linking because of -Wl,-S option passed to the linker.
>
> To work around this, I need to find a way to not add this -S option to the
> linker flag in my wrapper script, but so far I'm a bit lost.  It's easier to
> add an additional flag but is very hard to remove flag manually.
>
> Any clever ideas?
>
>
> Kohei
>
> --
> Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
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