Default +universal variant for configure-based ports

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Feb 27 20:42:42 PST 2007


On Feb 27, 2007, at 14:23, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Being somebody who actually digs into stack traces and core dumps,  
> I would be extremely leery about loosing the -g flag.  When  
> something goes wrong, having the additional debugging information  
> available is nice.
>
> I think there's precedence for keeping it.  Most of the Linux  
> distributions I believe build it in by default.  For example,  
> here's a build log for Subversion on Ubuntu Dapper Drake:
>
> http://www-devel.orcaware.com/packages/ubuntu/dapper/subversion/log- 
> build-subversion-1.3.2-3zajac1.txt
>
> Lots of -g's in there.
>
> Disk is pretty cheap these days, so I say keep it in.

Well my disk is full, and I wouldn't have a clue how to use the  
debugging info even if it were there, so I don't want it. So how do  
we make the presence or absence of -g configurable globally per user?





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