Changeset 73d91ac for chapter08/stripping.xml

Timestamp:

12/05/2023 05:12:55 AM (10 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/arm64

Children:

00de269

Parents:

6b6a1b9 (diff), dc8572f (diff)
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Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/arm64

File:

• chapter08/stripping.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/stripping.xml

@@ -30 +30 @@
   dynamically linked binaries and shared libraries).</para>
 
-  <para>The debugging symbols from selected libraries are preserved
-  in separate files.  That debugging information is needed to run
-  regression tests with <ulink
+  <!-- TODO: Zstd is better than Zlib for both speed and size.
+             Unfortunately Valgrind does not support Zstd-compressed debug
+             info yet: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469782 -->
+  <para>The debugging symbols from selected libraries are compressed with
+  <application>Zlib</application> and preserved in separate files.  That
+  debugging information is needed to run regression tests with <ulink
   url='&blfs-book;/general/valgrind.html'>valgrind</ulink> or <ulink
   url='&blfs-book;/general/gdb.html'>gdb</ulink> later, in BLFS.
@@ -80 +83 @@
 
 for LIB in $save_usrlib; do
-    objcopy --only-keep-debug $LIB $LIB.dbg
+    objcopy --only-keep-debug --compress-debug-sections=zlib $LIB $LIB.dbg
     cp $LIB /tmp/$LIB
     strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/$LIB