Re: Debugging flags

[Daniel dot Egger at t-online dot de (Daniel Egger)]

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Manfred Hollstein wrote:

>$ env CC="{your_preferred_C_compiler}" CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS=-s \
>  ${path_to_egcs_directory}/configure ...

>and then simply call:

>$ make bootstrap; make check; make install

 Guess what.... it won't work the way you believe it to do ... why? Because
 there are hardcoded -g's which  won't get substituted. I'm trying to make
 the whole process more consistent. That means we should use the same
 mechanisms all over the tree. At the moment it's a whole chaos....

>It's  really that simple.  And, don't omit  `-g' from CXXFLAGS as this
>will prevent you   from being able   to  use your   favourite debugger
>looking at  C++ objects whose type definitions  originate from  one of
>those C++ libs.

 I seldom use debuggers to debug egcs. And if I intend to do so I'll compile
 it completely with debugging. For normal programs I don't need a debugable
 libstdc++.....

> [patch removed as it is not necessary]

 It may be not necessary but it would clarify things,,,,

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Servus,
       Daniel