Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Saturday 21 January 2006 00:25, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > that depends, does your code actually have things like
> > #ifdef DEBUG
> >      <debug stuff>
> > #endif
>
> And likewise your code should NOT have some logic like the following in
> it's build system.
> if(debug mode)
> 	 ignore user cflags and use our own cracked out cflags
>
> I've seen an upstream configure script where if you tell it you want
> debug mode, the only thing it does is force CFLAGS to '-O -march=i386'
> and not strip the binaries itself - this of course failed dismally when
> you tried to enable debugging on non-x86 platforms.

Actually kde (and as such most kde apps) does all kinds of awkward stuff in 
it's configure script too with respect to adding the "--enable-debug" flag. 
Although it mostly involves making the compiler extremely noisy, and forcing 
in "-g" flags.

Paul

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