[vlc-devel] [RFC PATCH 7/7] configure: Specify a build ID when building with breakpad

[Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017, at 1:10 PM, Marvin Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20 Dec 2017, at 13:02, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen wrote:
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> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, at 12:52, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen wrote:
> >>> TL;DR: It annotates the resulting binary with a unique identifier, 
> >>> which
> >>> is then used by breakpad to match symbols & binaries.
> >>
> >> Nice.
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> > This *should* work with clang, and therefor on macOS, but I'll confess 
> > I haven't tried.
> 
> Does not seem it does:
> 
>      ld: unknown option: --build-id
> 

Apparently the appropriate section in Mach-O is already filled in binaries generated by Apple's toolchain, so this can be made a Windows only change

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