On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:41:11PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > The attached patch should mostly speak for itself. I think it's great > that a lot of packages support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug now, but if the > program is compiled with optimization, it's very difficult to debug.
You might want to add a warning that this needs to be tested. Some packages, like glibc or the Hurd, can not be built without optimization (for example because of inline functions not being inlined). I guess this is the exception, and the vast majority of packages build with -O0 just fine. But where it fails it fails spectacularly :) As for me personally, I have made peace with -O2 code. stepi is your friend ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
