At some point, you may want to generate binary programs that are unstripped of debugging information. You may want to generate them with pkgsrc. Here’s a little note on what options will make that happen.
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Remember keep the sources around for the debugging, i.e. don’t do bmake clean.
I’ve set WORKOBJDIR=/usr/pkgobj in my mk.conf so if I want to remove all work dirs anyway it’s just a simple rm -rf /usr/pkgobj/*