2010/7/13 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:59:13PM -0400, George Greer wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >> >On 12 July 2010 14:04, George Greer <perl@greerga.m-l.org> wrote: >> >>Configure checks for "-g" in -Doptimize and flips -DDEBUGGING for you >> >>automatically. Try: >> > >> >This is not what INSTALL says... >> > >> >=item -DEBUGGING=-g >> > >> >=item -Doptimize=-g >> > >> >Adds -g to optimize, but does not set -DDEBUGGING. > >> Which would you prefer to be correct, the documentation or the >> implementation? > > "Yes". > > [Neither the question nor the answer are technically useful]. > > Which would *I* prefer to be correct*ed*? > > The implementation. To match the current documentation. I consider it a > misfeature that there are side effects when setting -Doptimize Me also. This sideeffect is not documented, it already led to a stupid problem at fedora and I hated it when testing for cygwin what fedora originally wanted: provide seperate -debug packages. -Doptimize=-g should *NOT* magically turn on -DDEBUGGING -- ReiniThread Previous | Thread Next