Re: Changing CI builds to RelWithDebInfo from Debug

Nate Graham <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:51:17 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM Igor Mironchik 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>     Hi. I did a local test on Linux with gcc version 15.3.0 (SUSE
>     Linux)  on my
>     project.
> 
>     The results:
> 
>     Debug
>                   build time:       03:14
>                   test time:         00:09
>                   space on disk: 833.3 MiB
> 
>     Release with -DECM_FORCE_ASSERTS=ON
>                   build time:       05:52
>                   test time:         00:09
>                   space on disk: 120.3 MiB


That's a huge increase in build time. I fear this will exacerbate our 
existing problem of CI resource contention.

Could we keep the debug builds and strip or throw away the unneeded 
debug symbols so they aren't taking up space on the builders?

Nate