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On 15 July 2010 13:51, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote: > 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 So then what needs to change? cheers, yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next