Bug 886249 – app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34-r12 adds debug flags (-g/-ggdb) on its own

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2022-12-16 08:21:51 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34-r12 adds debug flags (-g/-ggdb) on its own.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

NOTE:
while I know that at the end, the binaries are stripped, debug flags slow down the build process and take more disk/ram.

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2022-12-16 08:21:54 UTC]

Created attachment 842953 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Mats Lidell 2022-12-17 10:12:21 UTC]

Thanks for the report.

This is the standard behaviour for XEmacs 21.5. Upstream considers the odd minor versions to be beta versions. So the idea with the debug flags is to make any dumps be more useful when providing backtraces.

This is an explanation but not an excuse. I will see what I can do. I'm planning to make 21.5 a stable version in Gentoo and removing the debug flag would go hand in hand with that.

[Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow 2022-12-24 15:41:08 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b8afc4de2207f735aeb4e26ba1b9a70fa040fa60

commit b8afc4de2207f735aeb4e26ba1b9a70fa040fa60
Author:     Mats Lidell <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-12-24 13:47:16 +0000
Commit:     Mats Lidell <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-12-24 15:41:03 +0000

    app-editors/xemacs: Do not add debug flag
    
    Set ebuild to not per default add debug flags.
    Use ver_cut.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886249
    Signed-off-by: Mats Lidell <[e-mail]>

 app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.34-r13.ebuild | 259 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 259 insertions(+)

[Comment 4 Mats Lidell 2022-12-28 07:19:04 UTC]

The ebuild app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34-r13 is now available that corrects the reported problem. Thanks to XEmacs upstream for providing the solution.