White Hat escribió:
In response to White Hat :
I have a system that I am setting up that will only be used to test programs.
I therefore want all programs built with debug code. To facilitate that task, I
was wondering if I could put a global flag in the '/etc/make.conf' file.
Assuming that would work, which of these is the better solution.
1) WITH_DEBUG
2) WITH_DEBUG=1
3) WITH_DEBUG=true
4) -DWITH_DEBUG
If there is a better solution, I would appreciate hearing about it.
#2 and #3 will work.
The key is that the variable is set, not what it's set to. As a joke,
you can do WITH_DEBUG=no in make.conf, and confuse the hell out of other
sysadmins.
Note that there may be additional port-specific debugging that would
not be turned on by the global WITH_DEBUG, but you'll have to handle
that on a port-by-port basis.
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Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com
Interesting. Now if I want to turn DEBUG off for a particular port, would I use:
1) WITH_DEBUG
2) WITH_DEBUG=
3) WITH_DEBUG=""
#2 or #3. Also, take a look at ports-mgmt/portconf.
One other question. From what I have been reading, the use of 'WITH_DEBUG' also prevents the stripping of debug code when the program is installed. Is that correct, or do I have to use another flag to insure that debug code is not stripped from the installed program?
Yes, it's true. There might be some weird ports, which do things in a
non-standard way, this might not apply to those, but for the most of our
ports, which respect the most important macros, it is going to work.
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Gabor Kovesdan
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