[ros-dev] More RBuild issues...

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

at the current state of reactos, it is more important to get the BSOD
back. Someone ;-)  has rewrote the debug system and since this time the
BSOD isn't shown anymore.

- Hartmut

Alex Ionescu wrote:

> Ge van Geldorp wrote:
>
>>> From: Casper Hornstrup
>>>
>>> Rsym should strip the stabs symbols. What do you need more?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Thinking about it, I believe the difference between the before-rbuild
>> and
>> after-rbuild situation is that before, stabs symbols would be
>> stripped (for
>> both DBG := 0 and 1) but rossym symbols (which make the symbolic stack
>> traceback possible) were only added for DBG := 1. Now, for both DBG
>> := 0 and
>> 1, stabs symbols are stripped but rossym symbols are added even for
>> DBG :=
>> 0. Personally I think this is a good thing, as it will allow testers to
>> report meaningfull stack traces.
>>  
>>
> Testers shouldn't use DBG = 0 builds.... As I've said before...those
> builds should only be for releasing to the public.
> They require 64MB of memory to work properly in the first place, are
> much larger, slower, etc.
>
> I know that Casper (and even myself) want bug reports to be sent with
> meaningful traces, but a 30MB+ memory/disk bloat is not the way to get
> that. As I've explained before, since we control the releases, I think
> it's much better for us to run addr2line. Casper says this will mean
> having hundreds of copies of the symbol files...but I don't see why.
> We only need one per release. Then Casper says what about users that
> compile their own versions. But I've always been told that users DON'T
> compile their own versions, that only "Developers or testers" do.
> Well, since I've come to agree with that, then it's clear that there
> isn't any issue with users compiling their own version of ReactOS. As
> for testers or developers, there's no point in using the release
> version, since by building from SVN you're not using a "release"
> anymore, you're using your own build, which has DBG = 1.
>
> I hope we can find a compromise.
>
>> Ge van Geldorp.
>>
>>  
>>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
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