[Newb] Building with debug info and no optimization

[Mike Stump]

On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 04:11 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:
> sashan wrote:
>> configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run:
>> configure:   former value:  -g -O2
>> configure:   current value: -g
>> configure: error: changes in the environment can compromise the build
>> configure: error: run `make distclean' and/or `rm ./config.cache' and 
>> start over
>
> If you look at the errors carefully, you will see that the problem is 
> not in the toplevel but rather in one of the subdirectories.  So the 
> problem is not ./config.cache but rather subdir/config.cache, where 
> you can get subdir from the make output.  You can try deleting them 
> one at a time, but if one is broken probably all are broken.  So you 
> may want to try something like "rm */config.cache".
>
> It is probably safer to just configure a new tree though.  Delete the 
> old build tree and configure a new one, instead of trying to 
> reconfigure a build tree after a cvs update.

I think I hate the new code.  :-(  The times this kicks out errors from 
make; cvs update make; cvs update; make; cvs update is just annoying.  
In my experience, rm */config.cache; make restores the reliability of 
the operation.