Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:39:06 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting Debug flag in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <86mxt4pdph.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201008021646.o72Gk9Nk001750@mail.r-bonomi.com> (Robert Bonomi's message of "Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:46:09 -0500 (CDT)") References: <201008021646.o72Gk9Nk001750@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> writes: >> I have been having problems with several different programs lately. >> Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: "WITH_DEBUG= " >> in the /etc/make.conf file to force everything I build/rebuild to be >> built with debug symbols? I am assuming that I can simply place that >> flag in the make.conf file. Do I have to also give it a value; i.e "=1" >> or "=yes" also? >> > > What's wrong with the traditional way of doing this -- i.e., setting the > environment variable CFLAGS to -g befoe your start make-inthings? Because you need to define empty STRIP, too. OTOH, setting WITH_DEBUG or DEBUG_FLAGS does this for you.
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