To -g or not to -g? (was: egcs build report)

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.GSO.4.02.9808062234230.13403-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
  > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >> (For 1.1 itself we could include a note on how to build without
  > >> debug symbols, but still have debuggable libraries, but not change
  > >> the code).
  > > Agreed.
  > 
  > Okay, but who'll do that?  I'd really like to see that, but how exactly
  > can this -- binaries without debug symbols and libraries with debugging
  > information -- be done?
  > 
  > If anyone knows but doesn't want to update the docs, please give me a
  > hint and I'll do the HTML stuff...
Look for LIBCXXFLAGS and LIBCFLAGS or something like that which might allow
you to control what specific flags are used when building the runtime
libraries (particularly for g++).

jeff