All it would do is include the -g switch when compiling.  At the moment,
this doesn't happen, and the --enable-debug is a fairly standard switch in
the other packages that I've seen that use autoconf.  Is there some other
way that it is done using the configure script?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Michael Ansley wrote:
>> > There is no --enable-debug switch.  You have to turn on debug by
>> > modifying the CFLAGS line in the template file for your system.
>> > (Hmm, now that you mention it, --enable-debug would be a cleaner
>> > solution than keeping a locally modified template file, which is
>> > what I currently do and most of the other developers probably do
>> > also ... another to-do item ...)
>> 
>> What debugs would --enable-debug enable?

Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:06:36 +0200
"Ansley, Michael" <Michael.Ansley@intec.co.za>
RE: [HACKERS] Max query string length
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> All it would do is include the -g switch when compiling.  At the moment,
> this doesn't happen, and the --enable-debug is a fairly standard switch in
> the other packages that I've seen that use autoconf.  Is there some other
> way that it is done using the configure script?
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Michael Ansley wrote:
> >> > There is no --enable-debug switch.  You have to turn on debug by
> >> > modifying the CFLAGS line in the template file for your system.
> >> > (Hmm, now that you mention it, --enable-debug would be a cleaner
> >> > solution than keeping a locally modified template file, which is
> >> > what I currently do and most of the other developers probably do
> >> > also ... another to-do item ...)
> >> 
> >> What debugs would --enable-debug enable?
> 

Added to TODO:
	
	* Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line

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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] Max query string length