On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote:
> See also, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875954 > > orionp and I were discussing on irc today, the idea to add > -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=ReleaseWithDebInfo > to %cmake by default in /etc/rpm/macros.cmake , while making it easy to > set/override manually, similar to how %_cmake_lib_suffix64 is currently > handled. > > the idea being that many cmake projects default to Release (or not, > sometimes goofy things like Debug) > > The idea being that many projects default to CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release and > end up pulling in -O3 (and -DNDEBUG). > > There's 2 issues we'd like some wider input. What disadvantages or side- > effects are there to: > > 1. setting a default CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE? > > 2. building with -DNDEBUG by default? > I own several packages that use cmake and I've taken to setting the release type to RelWithDebugInfo like you suggest. One question I've had but never gotten around to asking is: Regardless of whether you use Release or RelWithDebugInfo, should we be building with -O3? It seems odd that the rpm macro defaults to doing something that is explicitly against the packaging guidelines. Thanks, Richard
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