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Date:      Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:25:28 +0400
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting Debug flag in /etc/make.conf
Message-ID:  <86lj8qzfif.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100801072824.0a3989bf@scorpio> (Jerry's message of "Sun, 1 Aug 2010 07:28:24 -0400")
References:  <20100801072824.0a3989bf@scorpio>

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Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> writes:

> I have been having problems with several different programs lately.
> Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: "WITH_DEBUG= "

You'd lose `-O2' compiler-specific optimization. If you want to retain
it use DEBUG_FLAGS, e.g.

  DEBUG_FLAGS = -ggdb
  CFLAGS += ${DEBUG_FLAGS}

Ports that build using bsdmake don't really need the second line as well
as buildworld.

> 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?

Besides symbols some ports enable compile-time debugging and disable
optimization using WITH_DEBUG ifdef that may impact performance.



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