On 8/25/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
wonder why gentoo does not support debug flag on ALL packages, but just to a small range of ebuilds? any good reason for that .? don't know.
The debug use flag is normally (and IMO should only be) used for optional debugging/logging systems that can be built-in to packages, not for debug symbols like you get with CFLAGS=-g. It sometimes also adds -g, but it is really more for the optional parts of packages that can be included regardless of the CFLAGS. To illustrate my point, USE=debug has the following effects on: * app-emulation/wine: enables the use of the WINE_DEBUG environment variable to generate debug output. * media-sound/alsa-driver: adds extra logging about the sound card configuration and inner-workings of alsa to the system logs. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
