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[SOLVED] getting a debug version with makepkg

I'm trying to debug crashes in tint2. It seems that my self builds don't crashe in the same way, but changing to _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 creates the crashing version.

I tried using GDB and can locate a crash somewhere in tint2 launcher. However, makepkg always strips the debug symbols etc etc.

I can modify /etc/makepkg.conf to produce debug symbols, but they are obviously not downloadable.

Is there some way to get makepkg to produce a binary with debugging info. another part of the problem is that tint2 uses cmake and ninja to build. I am not familiar with those.

EDIT: I think this is solved by using a cmake flag   -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ in the build function. I can then debug directly using the built src/build/tint2.