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On 13/10/2019 21:15, Luboš Luňák wrote:
  And --disable-symbols is basically like adding -g0 to CXXFLAGS. Most setups
build with --enable-dbgutils to build with full debug builds, but in fact
generating debug symbols mostly seems like a waste for Jenkins builds. Is
that actually used for something? I know unittests on Linux print backtraces
on crashes/aborts, but I've just tried adding abort() in a random unittest
and the backtrace is not very useful, because it doesn't use debug symbols
anyway. And with just 'make starmath.build' adding 'ENABLE_SYMBOLS_FOR='
saves again about 10% of build time here.

Was the backtrace printed by gdb inspecting the core file, or was it printed from within the implementation of abort(2) in glibc?

For the tests to print gdb-generated backtraces on Linux, core files must be enabled (`ulimit -c unlimited`) and be stored as files named core* in cwd (see /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern). When those conditions are not met anyway for the relevant Gerrit/Jenkins builds, --enable-symbols likely doesn't give any benefit.


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