Re: NDEBUG when building packages?

To: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NDEBUG when building packages?
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:30:17 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 20771.43161.813488.58458@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Daniel Pocock writes ("NDEBUG when building packages?"):
> I notice some upstreams hack NDEBUG into their Makefile, while others
> leave it at the discretion of the user
> 
> Is there any distribution policy for this?  Should I be adding something
> into debian/rules to set -DNDEBUG when I prepare a package for release?

-DNDEBUG is (normally) EBW.

Unless your packages are weird in some way, you shouldn't set it.
Even if upstream specify it it can be right to remove it.

Ian.

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