Compiling without -g

[Joseph H. Buehler]

Jonathan Buzzard <jab@hex.prestel.co.uk> writes:

> I grabed a copy of egcs-1.0.1 in order to get a better C++ compiler than
> gcc-2.7.2. However without going round editting all the Makefiles is
> there anyway to stop it using the -g flag everywhere as I am a little
> short on disk space. 

Here's what I do sometimes:

find -type f |
	xargs grep -l 'FLAGS[	 ]*=' |
	xargs perl -p -i -e 's#(-O\d?|-g)\b#-O#g if (/FLAGS\s*=/)'

Still haven't been able to get egcs to compile under redhat 5.0,
though...

Joe Buehler