Re: Changing CI builds to RelWithDebInfo from Debug

Kevin Ottens <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:49:51 +0200
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From: Kevin Ottens <[email protected]>
Cc: sysadmin <[email protected]>, Nicolas Fella <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Changing CI builds to RelWithDebInfo from Debug
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:49:51 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Hello,

On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 13:10:05 Central European Summer Time Nicolas Fella 
wrote:
> no objection in principle. I'm a bit skeptical that it will make a large
> difference (debug symbols probably make up the largest part of the
> space), but I'm open to being proved wrong.

Same here FWIW. I'm not sure the optimisations alone will reduce by a great 
deal.
 
> I'd rather not lose the asserts though, and we don't have to. We just
> need to pass -DECM_FORCE_ASSERTS=ON to CMake (see
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/extra-cmake-modules/-/merge_requests/574).

Yes, that's the important part to not sacrifice. We definitely need the 
asserts active on the CI. Otherwise they'd effectively be active only on 
developers environments this definitely wouldn't be enough.

Cheers.
-- 
Kevin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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