dev-shell: Disable separateDebugInfo #14169
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Motivation
This breaks gdb pretty-printers inserted into .debug_gdb_scripts section, because it implies --compress-debug-sections=zlib, -Wa,--compress-debug-sections. This is very unfortunate, because then gdb can't use pretty printers for Boost.Unordered (which are very useful, since boost::unoredred_flat_map is impossible to debug). This seems perfectly fine to disable in the dev-shell for the time being.
See 1, 2, 3 for further references.
With this change I'm able to use boost's pretty-printers out-of-the box:
When combined with a simple
add-auto-load-safe-path ~/codein .gdbinitContext
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