Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> While attempting a build without debugs flags earlier today, I noticed
> that the vanilla configure includes '-g -O2' in CFLAGS. This is kind of
> pointless, because of the fact that debugging with optimizations is
> painful at best, futile at worst. r24655 was a somewhat misguided
> effort to fix that problem, and quickly managed to break the
> buildslaves. It was reverted in r24666.
>
> So, my proposal is thus:
> 1) Currently configure complains if '--disable-debug' is given with
> '--enable-maintainer-mode' because the second implies
> '--enable-debug'. After some discussion on IRC, dlr proposed the
> following:
> I think '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-debug' should define
> SVN_DEBUG, but turn off -g.
> I agree, and propose it be implemented as such.
>
> 2) Debug symbols, that is including '-g' in CFLAGS, should be off by
> default, and only enabled when requested by '--enable-debug' or
> '--enable-maintainer-mode'. We may have had this debate before, but
> what is the reason for a vanilla './configure' including '-g'?
You don't explicitly address the -O2 complaint. What's your plan?
(I think --enable-maintainer-mode should turn off optimizations.)
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
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Received on Thu Apr 19 22:24:51 2007