Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:50:21PM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > In that case, should --enable-debug be the default, or --disable-debug? > > I'd prefer to disable debug as default. What do others think? > Have it disabled by default. I don't think it's useful to have them for everyone i.e. the average user. What do they gain with it? If you want to debug real grub you need qemu/bochs and gdb isn't that easy (for the avera users) Ok maybe I think still more like a Windows guy and not a Linux one, but with Opensuse and Ubuntu I think Linux gets more attractive to people who aren't that experts as we are here on the list :) Why should we waste a bit of space by default for every Linux distribution? I doubt they all figure out that they can just disable it on creating there .rpm etc. And I doubt Robert is disabling this for the Debian build if it's by default enabled on upstream ;)
For debugging it's always the best if you compile with -O0 too and this shouldn't really be the default. For the few people who need to debug real grub it shouldn't be too hard to just recompile it with `CFLAGS="-g3 -O0" ./configure --enable-debug' Having debug symbols in the userland tools could be maybe a bit useful for example in the case of the grub-probe segfault I experienced on my mdraid experiments. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
