Re: [PATCH for 4.6] tools: Honor Config.mk debug value, rather than setting our own

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 10:34 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> Changeset 1166ecf ('tools/Rules.mk: Don't optimize debug builds; add
> macro debugging information') exposed a bug whereby the autoconf stuff
> in tools was setting its own debug value (defaulting to ENABLED, even
> for releases) instead of honoring the value set in Config.mk.
> 
> After that changeset, if the global build has -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> enabled (as is the default in CentOS 7 rpmbuild), then the tools build
> will fail (because debug builds default to on).
> 
> There should be only one place to specify whether to build debug or
> not, and Config.mk is already included by the relevant makefiles.  So
> simply remove the tools/configure debug option and everything falls
> into place naturally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

> ---
> 
> This is functionally a regression in 4.6, and so should be considered
> for inclusion in 4.6.
> 
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> CC: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> CC: Euan Harris <euan.harris@citrix.com>
> ---
>  tools/configure    | 26 --------------------------
>  tools/configure.ac |  1 -
>  2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/configure b/tools/configure
> index 428b3a5..884ce0a 100755
> --- a/tools/configure
> +++ b/tools/configure
> @@ -707,7 +707,6 @@ rombios
>  qemu_traditional
>  blktap2
>  LINUX_BACKEND_MODULES
> -debug
>  seabios
>  ovmf
>  xsmpolicy
> @@ -798,7 +797,6 @@ enable_ocamltools
>  enable_xsmpolicy
>  enable_ovmf
>  enable_seabios
> -enable_debug
>  with_linux_backend_modules
>  enable_blktap2
>  enable_qemu_traditional
> @@ -1473,7 +1471,6 @@ Optional Features:
>    --disable-xsmpolicy     Disable XSM policy compilation (default is 
> ENABLED)
>    --enable-ovmf           Enable OVMF (default is DISABLED)
>    --disable-seabios       Disable SeaBIOS (default is ENABLED)
> -  --disable-debug         Disable debug build of tools (default is 
> ENABLED)
>    --enable-blktap2        Enable blktap2, (DEFAULT is on for Linux, 
> otherwise
>                            off)
>    --enable-qemu-traditional
> @@ -4114,29 +4111,6 @@ seabios=$ax_cv_seabios
>  
>  
>  
> -# Check whether --enable-debug was given.
> -if test "${enable_debug+set}" = set; then :
> -  enableval=$enable_debug;
> -fi
> -
> -
> -if test "x$enable_debug" = "xno"; then :
> -
> -    ax_cv_debug="n"
> -
> -elif test "x$enable_debug" = "xyes"; then :
> -
> -    ax_cv_debug="y"
> -
> -elif test -z $ax_cv_debug; then :
> -
> -    ax_cv_debug="y"
> -
> -fi
> -debug=$ax_cv_debug
> -
> -
> -
>  
>  # Check whether --with-linux-backend-modules was given.
>  if test "${with_linux_backend_modules+set}" = set; then :
> diff --git a/tools/configure.ac b/tools/configure.ac
> index 7daec99..6c70040 100644
> --- a/tools/configure.ac
> +++ b/tools/configure.ac
> @@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([ocamltools], [Disable Ocaml 
> tools])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([xsmpolicy], [Disable XSM policy compilation])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_DISABLE([ovmf], [Enable OVMF])
>  AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([seabios], [Disable SeaBIOS])
> -AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([debug], [Disable debug build of tools])
>  
>  AC_ARG_WITH([linux-backend-modules],
>      AS_HELP_STRING([--with-linux-backend-modules="mod1 mod2"],