Mark tests which require debug symbols

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Apr 5 15:56:41 PDT 2020


Milton Vandersloot <miltonrobertvandersloot1412 at protonmail.com> writes:

> Dear notmuch Developers
>
> The test suite fails some tests when the executable is not build with
> debug symbols (-g).  To run the test suite completely notmuch has to
> be (re)compiled with debug symbols.  However, in this scenario the
> tested code/library (with debug symbols) is not the same as used later
> (without debug symbols).  There are numerous reasons for not wanting
> debug symbols in the production executable which I won't dive into.

Is there some reason you can't strip the binaries before installing
them? That's what we do in Debian.

d


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