2012/10/31 Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lu...@suse.cz> wrote: >> On Wednesday 31 of October 2012, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lu...@suse.cz> wrote: >>> > I'd prefer to not bring it back because of a special use case that's >>> > already easily doable as it is. >>> >>> Well tinderbox works nicely and easily with an autogen.lastrun >>> associated with a given profile... >>> messing with env variable is not as neat and is just a pain when >>> managing many of these profile... >>> what is the harm of --enable-symbol ? >> >> ./configure --enable-symbol >> ./configure CXXFLAGS='-Os -g' >> >> Where's the difference in that? >> >>> note: I think the one that should go is dbgutil... >>> --enable-symbol => release build but with symbols >>> --enable-debug => debug build (with symbol of course) >>> extra feature (dbg-util) => --enable-debug + runtime trigger to >>> activate the 'special' stuff >> >> How exactly do you envision a runtime trigger that activates binary >> incompatibility? Because that's exactly what makes dbgutil different from >> debug. > > then make dbgutil feature not binary incompatible... I'm not c++ > expert, but surely there is ways to provide these extra feature > without touching the interface. > iow having a impl_debug pointer that can be used if not null to do > extra stuff... very low cost for release and flexible for debug.. > without the binary incompatibility >
enable-dbgutil uses the stl debug libraries which are binary incompatibel with the normal stl libraries. I still don't see how the three different switches are confusing: enable-symbol: only add debugging symbols but still with optimization enable-debug: additionally no optimization to make it easier to debug enable-dbgutil: switch to stl debug library + some more stuff (binary incompatible) Maybe I'm missing something but they seem to be separated clearly and each has its own purpose. I think with the argument that you can specify the parameters in the CXXFLAGS we can also remove enable-debug and most likely many more. Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
