Re: lynx-dev Patch for configure script

[Henry Nelson]

> I do find the default action unexpected, however. If "--enable-debug" is
> not set in the configure options, configure silently removes a "-g"
> that is set in CFLAGS. I would think that most folks would expect the
> explicitly set CFLAGS to be unchanged, unless "--disable-debug" were to

I wouldn't argue one way or the other about the logic of the default
action, but I do like having debugging off by default.  I'm really tired
of having to go into every makefile and removing those "-g"'s by hand as
you have to do with so many other "configure" packages.  In other words,
I prefer having to set "--enable-debug" in order to get debugging rather
than the other way around, i.e., having to set "--disable-debug" to turn
it off.  Someone totalling relying on configure shouldn't even have to know
what CFLAGS is much less what its contents might be, IMO.

__Henry

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