Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:59:20 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Configure to use WITH_DEBUG Message-ID: <20071105085920.1acf1aa6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <146042.86109.qm@web34406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <146042.86109.qm@web34406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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In response to White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com>: > I have a system that I am setting up that will only be used to test programs. I therefore want all programs built with debug code. To facilitate that task, I was wondering if I could put a global flag in the '/etc/make.conf' file. Assuming that would work, which of these is the better solution. > > 1) WITH_DEBUG > 2) WITH_DEBUG=1 > 3) WITH_DEBUG=true > 4) -DWITH_DEBUG > > If there is a better solution, I would appreciate hearing about it. #2 and #3 will work. The key is that the variable is set, not what it's set to. As a joke, you can do WITH_DEBUG=no in make.conf, and confuse the hell out of other sysadmins. Note that there may be additional port-specific debugging that would not be turned on by the global WITH_DEBUG, but you'll have to handle that on a port-by-port basis. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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