Re: Developer_CFLAGS

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:20PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:08:44AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      >      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      >      
>      >      > Can anyone suggest an appropriate way in which we can set some
>      >      > additional CFLAGS which are seen by developers, but not in 
> tarballs
>      >      > intended for the general public?
>      >      
>      >      Add an "--enable-developer-mode", I guess?  (We already have
>      >      something like that for --with-gui-tools, right?)
>      >      
>      >      > Eg: -DGDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE=1  etc.
>      >      
>      >      What does that do?
>      >
>      > It disables certain parts the the API which might cause problems when
>      > running applications on a system with more than one display.
>      
>      Can you explain why we would want that for developers but not for
>      users?
>
> I guess it was a bad example.  GDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED is probably a
> better example.

I can't find any documentation for that, but it seems to #ifdef
out prototypes for functions that are deprecated.  If that is so,
then I guess we could add a --disable-deprecated-apis or some
such.  Or you could just specify it at configure time:
        ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
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