Bug 950659 – www-client/firefox-136.0: debug symbols are enabled even with CFLAGS=-g0

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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 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.