On 2/22/14, 7:35 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> All the non-release versions of bash enable extensive, exhaustive, and >>> time-consuming malloc arena and allocation checking. That slows things >>> considerably. This has been true in all versions before 4.3. >> --- > ---- > > This wouldn't, by any chance, be controllable in the Makefile with > these lines?: > > # comment out for release > #DEBUG = -DDEBUG > #MALLOC_DEBUG = -DMALLOC_DEBUG > > --- or is there some other check to see if "RELSTATUS" is empty??? > (transmission works that way... if not a full release number, it > turns on debugging regardless of build options).
That's close, but not exactly it. Look at what configure.ac does with the DEBUG and MALLOC_DEBUG variables, how configure substitutes them, and what Makefile.in does with them. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/