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Add option to prevent including metadata in target name #6899
Description
Activity
Adding: Specifying
cargo rustc -- -o filenamedoes not ignore-C extra-filename. Nor does-C extra-filename="". Also, rustc warns that-C extra-filenameis ignored, but it is not:$ mkdir output-filename $ cd output-filename/ $ cargo init Created binary (application) package $ cargo rustc -v --release -- -o filename Compiling output-filename v0.1.0 (/private/tmp/output-filename) Running `rustc --edition=2018 --crate-name output_filename src/main.rs --color always --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=3 -o filename -C metadata=c961d75f8bcf3c48 -C extra-filename=-c961d75f8bcf3c48 --out-dir /private/tmp/output-filename/target/release/deps -L dependency=/private/tmp/output-filename/target/release/deps` warning: due to multiple output types requested, the explicitly specified output file name will be adapted for each output type warning: ignoring --out-dir flag due to -o flag warning: ignoring -C extra-filename flag due to -o flag Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.39s $ ls Cargo.lock filename-c961d75f8bcf3c48 src Cargo.toml filename-c961d75f8bcf3c48.d targetThis may be a rustc issue?
Reacted by Chaoses-Ib@arve0 I submitted a quick PR (rust-lang/rust#62128) for the extraneous warning.
Reacted by Arve Seljebu
Problem
When cargo builds a target is passes
-C extra-filename=-...to rustc which produces an output file with a metadata suffix in the name. For windows targets this will producefoo-metadata.exeandfoo-metadata.pdbfiles. It then copies and renames these files so the final result isfoo.exeandfoo.pdb.However the debug data in a PE executable files stores the original name of the PDB file and this name is used when debuggers (Visual Studio, WinDbg or anything using dbghelp.dll) are searching for PDB files on symbol servers. So when looking for the PDB file for foo.exe, it will actually search for foo-metadata.pdb which has likely not been uploaded.
Possible Solution(s)
Ideally it would be possible to specify in the
Cargo.tomlthat extra-filename should not be used for certain profiles, e.g.:Notes
Output of
cargo version: cargo 1.33.0 (f099fe9 2019-02-12)