Re: lynx-dev ./configure and variables/macros (was: Does --enable-debug work?)

[T.E.Dickey]

> Yeah, it's the "or something like that" aspect of setting CFLAGS, 
> CPPFLAGS that I dislike.  ./configure is a black box whose inner 
> workings I don't know (I could find out, with a lot of work) - 
> I put something in and get something out but don't know how 
> exactly they relate. 

The original problem is that someone decided a while back that they'd change
autoconf so anytime it recognized gcc as the compiler, it would add the -g
option.  Normally I'd build w/o -g for beta code and install it without
stripping (so I can get a useful walkback).  Adding the -g option will
certainly get a "useful" walkback - as well as a lot of debug information
that is useless if you've discarded the source tree.

>    Klaus 


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