Re: [PATCH] sane-toolchain-*: add -g to FULL_OPTIMIZATION to make -dbg packages more usefull

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 03/01/2011 12:14 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Tom Rini<tom_rini@mentor.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/01/2011 11:10 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:54 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's why I'm asking for the -g part to be put into a variable so that
>>>> it can be overriden easily, in all cases, without needing to know the
>>>> special cases (ie glibc).
>>>
>>> Why is glibc special anyway (or, why is the optimization in a
>>> libc-specific conf file)?  It seems a bit bogus that the choice of your
>>> C library would be having such a global impact on the compiler flags for
>>> everything else.
>>
>> There is some odd papering over that's going on to switch out a flag or two
>> (and force -O2) for glibc (but not eglibc).  But my point is that today we
>> have a few special case FULL_OPTIMIZATION_pn-'s and it'd be great to just
>> not have to worry about that when setting the debug level we build with.
>>
>
> May be debugability can be expressed via another variable say
> DEBUG_FLAGS or somesuch which can then we appended to global CFLAGS

With the caveat that I want to control native vs target at different 
levels, yes.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation