Re: lynx-dev Does --enable-debug work?

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > I'm not sure what that is supposed to tell me...  Does it mean you 
> > do not consider "--enable-debug has no effect" a bug? 
> 
> no - it's working as I thought it should:  If you _don't_ set $CFLAGS,
> autoconf decides if gcc supports the -g option (some ports don't), and adds
> it.  If you don't specify --enable-debug, I strip it out.  (But I don't add
> it otherwise, since that would be ignoring the $CFLAGS value).

I would argue that --enable-debug is an explicit request to add something
to $CFLAGS (or at least to *some* variable that ends up in the command for
calling the compiler).

> > About the configure script I just want to know how to use the dang 
> > thing, not how it works internally.  (Well at least not now.) 
> 
> two choices:
>       don't override $CFLAGS, and use --enable-debug.
> 
>       override $CFLAGS, but add -g (--enable-debug is optional)
> >  
> > So what, exactly, is the "standard" way to compile lynx with debugging? 

If you don't want to change the "dont't add it otherwise" -

Could you add some words to that effect to ./configure --help output
and INSTALLATION please?  Something like

  --enable-debug          compile w/ debugging (if $CFLAGS is set, add -g 
there, too) 



  --enable-debug                        (The symbol DEBUG is always defined.)
        Use this option to compile-in support for debugging.
        Note that this flag is ignored if the CFLAGS environment
        variable is set, in that case "-g" (or whatever) has to
        be included in the CFLAGS value to get debugging.


   Klaus