From: Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
To: Daniel.Egger@t-online.de
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Debugging flags
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 07:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13716.51728.315731.379406@saturn.hollstein.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98062616030401.00643@z2.n2480.f898.fidonet.org>
On Fri, 26 June 1998, 15:57:24, Daniel.Egger@t-online.de wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
>
> >$ env CC="{your_preferred_C_compiler}" CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS=-s \
> > ${path_to_egcs_directory}/configure ...
>
> >and then simply call:
>
> >$ make bootstrap; make check; make install
>
> Guess what.... it won't work the way you believe it to do ... why? Because
Sure it does work! Have you actually looked at the generated toplevel Makefile's
CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS? They contain what you've been using at configure time and, since
they are passed down via BASE_FLAGS_TO_PASS, each submake will use them, although
their Makefile might contain different flags.
> there are hardcoded -g's which won't get substituted. I'm trying to make
> the whole process more consistent. That means we should use the same
> mechanisms all over the tree. At the moment it's a whole chaos....
Not, if you were working as suggested above.
>
> >It's really that simple. And, don't omit `-g' from CXXFLAGS as this
> >will prevent you from being able to use your favourite debugger
> >looking at C++ objects whose type definitions originate from one of
> >those C++ libs.
>
> I seldom use debuggers to debug egcs. And if I intend to do so I'll compile
> it completely with debugging. For normal programs I don't need a debugable
> libstdc++.....
>
> > [patch removed as it is not necessary]
>
> It may be not necessary but it would clarify things,,,,
>
> --
>
> Servus,
> Daniel
>
manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-27 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-24 17:23 Daniel Egger
1998-06-25 9:19 ` Manfred Hollstein
1998-06-25 12:07 ` Joe Buck
1998-06-26 13:32 ` Daniel Egger
1998-06-26 22:48 ` Mumit Khan
1998-06-27 7:22 ` Manfred Hollstein [this message]
1998-06-28 12:37 ` Daniel Egger
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