Policy for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

     Policy version 3.5.3.0, Section 11.1. Binaries, includes the
following recommendation:

                          If the environment variable `DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS'
     contains the string `debug', compile the software with debugging
     information (usually this involves adding the `-g' flag to `CFLAGS').
     This allows the generation of a build tree with debugging information.
     If the environment variable `DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS' contains the string
     `nostrip', do not strip the files at installation time.

     The following makefile snippet is suggested to implement this
recommendation: 

            ifneq (,$(findstring debug,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
            CFLAGS += -g
            endif
            ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
            INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
            endif

     Unless I am badly mistaken, this will not produce the opposite of
the desired result.  From install.1:

       -s, --strip
              strip symbol tables, only for 1st and 2nd formats

     Therefore, if the value of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is `nostrip', the
installed binaries will be stripped.  Setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to
`debug' will produce unstripped binaries.  
     
Bob
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