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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Option for debug support in DirectFB package
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 10:15:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150609101508.034c93f0@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea9e1bad9d8e6c95d8611537b5224ccc@openmailbox.org>

Dear C?dric Marie,

On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:29:00 +0200, C?dric Marie wrote:

> But then, since it is already commited, is your removal of DirectFB 
> specific debug option still relevant?

Well, maybe no.

> Or should we create another global option to enable debug (i.e. traces) 
> in autotools packages (and similar things in other types of packages 
> when possible)?
> This is just a question, I have no personal need for this debug 
> option...

A global option is a bit problematic, because we have discovered that
--enable-debug is clearly not used for the same thing in all packages.
Some packages add -Werror, some add some other funky stuff, some simply
enable debugging symbols. --enable-debug is not a standard, formalized
option with a well-defined meaning. So I don't think a global option
that applies to all autotools packages make sense here.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-08 21:56 [Buildroot] Option for debug support in DirectFB package Cédric Marie
2015-06-08 22:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-06-09  7:29   ` Cédric Marie
2015-06-09  8:15     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-06-09  8:47       ` Cédric Marie
2015-06-08 22:27 ` Arnout Vandecappelle

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