Re: Debugging symbols by default

Bruce Momjian writes:

> I am not sure about the idea of -g by default. I know lyx uses -g by
> default, and the compile/install takes forever. In fact, I have removed
> -g from my compiles here because it takes too long to compile/link and I
> do it too often. When I need to debug, I recompile with -g. My concern
> is that we may start to look very bloated with -g and those huge
> binaries. My question is whether it is worth the install slowness/bloat?

PostgreSQL compile time is minimal compared to other packages. If you're
worried about 30 seconds, turn off the optimization or use parallel make.
If you see yourself doing a full build too often, turn on dependency
tracking. The extra time you spend building with -g is the time you save
yourself and the users from having to recompile everything because a bug
needs to be tracked down. And when you rebuild, the bug might not be
reproduceable.

I don't buy the disk space argument either. If you're worried about a few
megabytes then you going to have a lot of trouble running a database.
And if you're still worried, you can run install-strip, which is the
standard way to do it.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net