Re: Guidelines

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Carl V. Streeter writes ("Re: Guidelines"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > 
> > You're right.  I propose to change the Guidelines to suggest that:
> > 
> >  * C and C++ modules shoould be compiled with -O2 -g.
> >  * Programs should be linked without -s or -g.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.  Although, a call to 'strip' might be mentioned alongside
> that.  It could be less obtrusive in many cases to just stick a
> (cd usr/bin; strip *) before the package was built than to modify how
> the author's makefile conceived of installing software.

I've made these changes now.  I've also suggested -Wall, but commented
that sane warning options to use vary from one program to another.

These are now in my upload queue.

Ian.