Re: [PATCH 14/14] gnu: Add deal.II.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I ended up pushing with the "dealii" name.
>
> In the build logs, I see many occurrences of the following warning:
>
>   Assembler messages:
>   Warning: cannot compress debug sections (zlib not installed)
>
> presumably because of the -Wa,--compress-debug-sections option passed to
> the compiler.  How about adding zlib to native-inputs?

Adding zlib might silence the warnings, but the debugging symbols are
stripped later on anyway (and there’s no “debug” output.)  So either way
is fine, IMO.

(In the future it would be nice to systematically compress debugging
sections that go to “debug” outputs.)

Ludo’.