[Fwd] address@hidden: autoconf2.13: autoconf adds -g to cflags/cxxflags

[Christian Ohm]

hi.

i filed the following bugreport for autoconf 2.13 for debian.

----- Forwarded message from Christian Ohm <address@hidden> -----

Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:28:10 +0100
From: Christian Ohm <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Subject: autoconf2.13: autoconf adds -g to cflags/cxxflags

Package: autoconf2.13
Version: 2.13-39
Severity: normal

hi.

since some time, autoconf unconditionally adds '-g' to the CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS
(after "testing whether gcc/g++ accepts -g..."). i haven't found a way to
disable this behaviour, and since it increases the needed space considerably
(for example, before this (or after editing the configure script manually),
a compiled exult source tree was about 25mb, after it was about 125mb and
the binary alone was 25mb), it would be nice, if the old behaviour could be
restored.

bye

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux moongate 2.4.13 #1 Sat Oct 27 15:44:43 CEST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages autoconf2.13 depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.52-4     automatic configure script builder
ii  debianutils                   1.15       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  m4                            1.4-13     a macro processing language
ii  perl                          5.6.1-5    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libfile-temp-pe 5.6.1-5    Core Perl modules.

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the answer was the following:
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Sorry, I'm not going to fork autoconf for something like this,
and certainly not in an old version (2.13) when the new version
(2.52) is already in Debian.  If you want this behavior to be
standard then please talk to the upstream folks at 
address@hidden
---

thus, i'm writing this to ask if there's a chance that this behaviour is
changed.

thanks
co


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