Re: Debug as default...

[Gregory John Casamento]

Patrick,

It should, yes..    Alternatively, if you built with strip on, it should strip 
the apps.

Recent changes in GNUstep have eliminated any difference in the naming of 
debug, profile, or normal libraries... so you don't need to worry about the _p, 
_d, or whatever suffixes anymore.

Currently many non-gnustep packages, such as gcc, gdb, binutils, etc, build 
with debug symbols on by default and are explicitly stripped before going into 
a distro.   I think we should do the same with GNUstep.

Later, GJC 
--Gregory Casamento

----- Original Message ----
From: Patrick McFarland <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden; Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:52:50 AM
Subject: Re: Debug as default...

On Sunday 10 September 2006 01:40, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> All,
>
> Andy Ruder suggested this and I agree with it.  I believe that we should
> make building with debug symbols the default in GNUstep.  This would allow
> distros to strip them, if they want, but would allow people who are
> building from source to be able to provide backtraces without having to do
> anything special.
>
> If you really want a stripped version, you could simply say "make
> stripped=yes" or something like that to get a version compiled without
> debug and with optimization turned on.
>
> I'm mentioning this again in order to start a discussion on the pros/cons
> of doing this.

Would this extend to outside applications?

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