Re: Debugging symbols by default

> We had discussed a while ago that it might be a good idea to compile with
> debugging symbols by default, at least when using GCC.

A tricky questions is what to do with the --enable-debug option. For GCC
it would become --disable-debug (i.e., remove -g from CFLAGS), but I'm not
sure we'd need that if we provide 'make install-strip'.

For other compilers, it's anyone's guess. We could continue to provide
--enable-debug to add -g to CFLAGS. Some commerical vendors' compilers
actually support various combinations of debugging and optimizing these
days, but with different flags. So if you really try to build with
debugging support on those platforms you'd probably want to supply the
CFLAGS yourself.

I suppose one of the less confusing choices would be to not have that
option. Setting CFLAGS yourself is even less typing on average.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net