Optionally export metadata with libv8 to enable debuggers to inspect V8 state.

build/common.gypi

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     'v8_enable_prof%': 0,
 
     # Chrome needs this definition unconditionally. For standalone V8 builds,
     # it's handled in build/standalone.gypi.
     'want_separate_host_toolset%': 1,
 
     'v8_use_snapshot%': 'true',
     'host_os%': '<(OS)',
     'v8_use_liveobjectlist%': 'false',
     'werror%': '-Werror',
+    'v8_postmortem_support': 'false',

[Vyacheslav Egorov (Chromium), 2012/01/17 18:14:58]

should not it use % at the end of the name?

http://code.google.com/p/gyp/wiki/InputFormatReference#Providing_Default_Valu...

a small comment about the nature of the flag above it would be also helpful. 

 
     # For a shared library build, results in "libv8-<(soname_version).so".
     'soname_version%': '',
   },
   'target_defaults': {
     'conditions': [
       ['v8_enable_debugger_support==1', {
         'defines': ['ENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT',],
       }],
       ['v8_enable_disassembler==1', {
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                 # some test cases can cause stack overflow.
                 # 'StackReserveSize': '297152',
               },
             },
           }],
         ],
       },
     },
   },
 }