Re: CFLAGS = -g in tetex-bin

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:47:46PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in debian/rules of tetex-bin one can find.
> 
> ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),ia64)
> # check when this debugging flag was introduced - do we really need to debug alw
>   CFLAGS=-g
> else
>   CFLAGS =
> endif
> 
> I guess that was introduced due to some build problems on ia64. That
> bug was fixed in an NWU and closed 1,5 years ago manually IIRC. The
> closed bugs of tetex-bin should tell you more. IIRC that
> CFLAGS += -O0 switch was introduced for the same reason.

Anyhow, haven't checked the tetex sources recently, but current policy
expects everything to be built with -g and then stripped during the
binary (install) targets.

   Julian