Enable debug fission for Chrome debug builds.

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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       # The version of GCC in use, set later in platforms that use GCC and have
       # not explicitly chosen to build with clang. Currently, this means all
       # platforms except Windows, Mac and iOS.
       # TODO(glider): set clang to 1 earlier for ASan and TSan builds so that
       # it takes effect here.
       ['os_posix==1 and OS!="mac" and OS!="ios" and clang==0 and asan==0 and lsan==0 and tsan==0 and msan==0', {
         'conditions': [
           ['OS=="android"', {
             # We directly set the gcc_version since we know what we use.
             'gcc_version%': 46,
+            'binutils_version%': 222,
           }, {
             'gcc_version%': '<!(python <(DEPTH)/build/compiler_version.py)',
+            'binutils_version%': '<!(python <(DEPTH)/build/compiler_version.py assembler)',
           }],
         ],
       }, {
         'gcc_version%': 0,
+        'binutils_version%': 0,
       }],
       ['OS=="win" and "<!(python <(DEPTH)/build/dir_exists.py <(windows_sdk_default_path))"=="True"', {
         'windows_sdk_path%': '<(windows_sdk_default_path)',
       }, {
         'windows_sdk_path%': 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.0',
       }],
       ['OS=="win" and "<!(python <(DEPTH)/build/dir_exists.py <(directx_sdk_default_path))"=="True"', {
         'directx_sdk_path%': '<(directx_sdk_default_path)',
       }, {
         'directx_sdk_path%': '$(DXSDK_DIR)',
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               ['OS=="linux" and target_arch=="ia32"', {
                 'ldflags': [
                   '-Wl,--no-as-needed',
                 ],
               }],
               ['debug_unwind_tables==1', {
                 'cflags': ['-funwind-tables'],
               }, {
                 'cflags': ['-fno-unwind-tables', '-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables'],
               }],
+              # http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission
+              # Requires gold and gcc >= 4.7 or clang.
+              ['linux_use_gold_flags==1 and (clang==1 or gcc_version>=47) and binutils_version>=223', {

[ostap, 2014/03/18 16:00:06]

I have gold 1.11, binutils 2.23.2 and gcc 4.7.3 on ubuntu 13.04 .
Unfortunately getting errors:
cc1: error: unrecognised debug output level "split-dwarf"

gcc/g++ man also doesn't have this option listed.

However on Ubuntu 13.10 with gcc 4.8.1 this option exists.
It think gcc version check should be changed to gcc_version>=48 to make it work
for sure.

+                'cflags': ['-gsplit-dwarf'],
+                'ldflags': ['-Wl,--gdb-index'],
+              }],
             ],
           },
           'Release_Base': {
             'variables': {
               'release_optimize%': '2',
               # Binaries become big and gold is unable to perform GC
               # and remove unused sections for some of test targets
               # on 32 bit platform.
               # (This is currently observed only in chromeos valgrind bots)
               # The following flag is to disable --gc-sections linker
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }