BUILD-DEBUG-INFO(1)

💅 build-debug-info — the manual, but make it make sense 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to build-debug-info(1), a page from the General Commands Manual section. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it — because this little script is literally the backstage crew for your debug packages.

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✨ NAME ✨

build-debug-info — generates packing-lists and Makefiles for debug packages 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

PORTSDIR=path
build-debug-info [-mnqvx] -P pkgdir -- pkg_create_args ...

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So build-debug-info is a helper script, right? It generates debug package info inside bsd.port.mk(5), and its calling conventions are basically twinsies with update-plist(1). Iconic behavior, no cap.

Along with options and environment variables, build-debug-info takes the exact same options and arguments you'd pass to pkg_create(1). And since pkg_create(1) normally only gets one single actual pkgname, there's zero ambiguity even in MULTI_PACKAGES situations. Periodt. 💅

The first set of arguments corresponds to the ‘default package’.

The options are as follows:

• -P pkgdir — the directory used for generating output (mandatory). Like, you literally cannot skip this one, bestie. 🚨
• -q — Quiet mode. Do not display status progress messages. Note that this is not the opposite of verbose mode. 🙈
• -v — Verbose mode. Explain about directories stripped from dependencies. Note that this is not the opposite of quiet mode. 👑

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💖 THE GLOW-UP DETAILS 💖

build-debug-info will read each packing-list list and generate a corresponding debug-list under pkgdir. Like, it goes through them one by one, bestie — every single one. ✨

The full list of Makefile rules needed to generate those files and directories will be written as pkgdir/Makefile. So cute, so organized, so main character energy. 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pkg_add(1)
• pkg_create(1)
• update-plist(1)
• bsd.port.mk(5)

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💜 lowkey reminder: those two mode flags are not opposites, okay? Quiet ≠ not-verbose and verbose ≠ not-quiet. They're doing their own thing. Let them live. 🦋

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that's the whole page, bestie — sending you off with a little sign-off moment: this one comes from Debian, dated March 1, 2021 🌸✨ you're gonna slay those debug packages, i just know it 💅🎀