Packages
Packages
Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
| Package | “debug” Flag Description |
|---|---|
| app-portage/eix | Build with upstream's CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS for debugging support; not recommended for normal use. |
| dev-haskell/atomic-primops | Enable extra internal checks. |
| x11-misc/albert | Enable debugging informations |
| net-misc/ptpd | Enable debugging informations |
| app-editors/nano | Enable debug messages and assert warnings. Note that these will all be sent straight to stderr rather than some logging facility. |
| sys-auth/pambase | Enable debug information logging on syslog(3) for all the modules supporting this in the system authentication and system login stacks. |
| sys-block/parted | Enable debugging as encouraged by upstream: [The default configuration] includes --enable-debug (by default), which contains many assertions. Obviously, these "waste" space, but in the past, they have caught potentially dangerous bugs before they would have done damage, so we think it's worth it. Also, it means we get more bug reports ;) |
| app-emulation/ski | enable extra binary emulation debugging via sys-libs/binutils-libs |
| app-arch/innoextract | Enable debug logging and the --debug command-line option |
| app-misc/rlwrap | Enable debug |
| app-cdr/dvdisaster | Enable memory debugging. |
| dev-lang/spidermonkey | Enable assertions to allow for easier debugging of programs that link to spidermonkey -- note this will often crash software on regular end-user systems |
| sys-process/fcron | Enable debug code and output. Since version 3.0.5 this will no longer force foreground execution, and fcron will be able to run as a service properly. |
| dev-tcltk/expect-lite | pull in packages needed for runtime interactive debugger |
| net-vpn/wireguard-modules | Enable verbose debug reporting in dmesg of various WireGuard peer and device information. |
| dev-lang/crystal | Build each module as a separate object file. Speeds build up. |
| dev-libs/libevent | Support for running in debug mode |
| dev-perl/perl-headers | Add source locations in generated .ph files to assist with debugging when errors occur |
| app-i18n/librime | Enable debugging (including logging of input of RIME input methods) |
| games-action/dxx-rebirth | Enable various debugging code paths and sanity checks, not just output. Some of these checks date back to the retail build, and choke on some custom levels because the game was never coded to sufficiently distrust inputs |
| net-wireless/spectools | Build the raw output client for spectools. (for developers) |
| dev-libs/boost | Build and install only the debug version of the Boost libraries. Only enable this flag if you're developing against boost. |
| dev-util/google-perftools | Build a set of libraries with debug support (so-called debugalloc). These are available by default but are not needed unless you're actually developing using tcmalloc. |
| dev-libs/openct | Add debug output to the driver library for pcsc-lite. |
| www-client/chromium | Enable DCHECK feature with severity configurable at runtime. Mostly intended for debugging and development, NOT RECOMMENDED for general use. |
| media-tv/mythtv | Instructs Qt to use the 'debug' target |
| net-misc/chrony | Get DEBUG_LOG output from chronyd when passing -dd parameter |
| net-mail/vchkuser | Enables debug messages to syslog |
| sys-auth/pam_u2f | Enable debug messages using the pam logging macros. |
| sys-libs/glibc | When USE=hardened, allow fortify/stack violations to dump core (SIGABRT) and not kill self (SIGKILL) |
| www-servers/monkeyd | Enable lots of debugging info |
| x11-wm/e16 | Build libtrip debugging library |