On mar, nov 13, 2012 at 08:56:24 +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > curl -V displays 'Debug' as a feature, which indicates that curl and > libcurl are built with 'configure --enable-debug' or similar. > > The effect if this is that verbose outputs include a lot of debug info > and other data and texts that are intended for debug purposes only and > which don't really make a lot of sense or convey useful information to > ordinary humans. > > In short, the debug feature is meant to be for developers and debuggers > of curl/libcurl, not mere users of them. > > I suggest future versions switch off the debug option.
IIRC that was added to enable debug symbols (i.e. what's shipped in the -dbg package). See #648902 [0] and LP#855291 [1]. Even explicitly passing -g to ./configure CFLAGs doesn't work: > % objdump -h nodbg/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/*/* | grep -c \\.debug > 3 With --enable-debug: > % objdump -h dbg/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/*/* | grep -c \\.debug > 24 Is there an option I've missed to do this? Cheers [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648902 [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/855291 -- perl -E '$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse'
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