Bug 950659

Summary:	www-client/firefox-136.0: debug symbols are enabled even with CFLAGS=-g0
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kostadin Shishmanov <kostadinshishmanov>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kostadin Shishmanov 2025-03-05 17:45:37 UTC

I noticed that building firefox even with -j8 on a system with 32GB of RAM somehow made me OOM, and then I realized that I have -g0 in CFLAGS which enables debug symbols as can be seen here:

if is-flag '-g*' ; then
	if use clang ; then
	 mozconfig_add_options_ac 'from CFLAGS' --enable-debug-symbols=$(get-flag '-g*')
	else
	  mozconfig_add_options_ac 'from CFLAGS' --enable-debug-symbols
	fi                                               ^^^^^^^^^

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2025-03-05 18:59:06 UTC

I wonder if we need a tc-is-debug or whatever to actually detect if debug information is being emitted.