Octave compiled with debug symbols?

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Subject: Octave compiled with debug symbols?
From: George <pinkisntwell@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:08:04 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] e3ab69a51001230908m2c85cf0bpc2adbb94bb97c27d@mail.gmail.com>

I installed the lenny Octave package and this is what I get:

octave:1> octave_config_info ("CXXFLAGS")
ans = -O2 -g

Does this mean that Octave was built with debug symbols? If so, why?

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