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Re: NDEBUG when building packages?



Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes:
> Quoting Stephen M. Webb (2013-06-07 14:29:52)

>> Having debug symbols not matching the runtime would cause a great deal 
>> of trouble.  If you're expecting a lot of debugging, try the new -Og 
>> switch.

>> One build pass and let dh_strip create the debug symbols package for
>> you.  Unless you're not using dh, in which case your build system is
>> probably already broken and needs to get fixed first.

> Fud!

> Please support your "dh is a silver bullet" meme with some concrete 
> references.

I'm pretty sure Stephen just meant "debhelper" where he said "dh".  No
need to get excited.  :)  CDBS of course also uses debhelper, and hence
has the same capability.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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