On Sunday 21 June 2009 20:03:09 Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Peter Eisentraut<pet...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sunday 21 June 2009 17:02:43 Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> Setting CC=cc is entirely the wrong thing to do when passing -g as a > >> compiler option. If you pass -g, then you also need to specific > >> CC=gcc. > > > > Why? > > Because -g produces GDB-specific output, which is not available on > non-GNU compilers.
The Single Unix Specification supports the -g option for compilers, so you can assume that anything that is a reasonable Unix C compiler supports it. We should figure out what the Debian policy for all this is, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
