James Carlson wrote: > Roland Mainz writes: > > > So, create your own project-related environment variable and use that > > > in the makefiles. > > > > Umpf... that's exactly what I'd like to avoid: Create yet another > > project-specific debugging variable. IMHO it may be nice to have one > > switch for all projects within OS/Net... [snip] > I haven't really encountered a need for build-time enabling of special > debug features that have a more substantial or system-wide support > infrastructure than that. I guess your mileage will vary, so if you > see an obvious gap here, feel free to propose something more concrete.
AFAIK the "obvious gap" is a lack of a global switch which says "compile everything with -g". I've spend a couple of days now with finding a problem with |posix_spawn()| and this was a great sightseeing-tour through libshell, libast, libc (needed to BFU the system), libnsl (needed to BFU the system), libsecdb.so (skipped BFU and only use tar|tar to clobber the file) and finally libsocket (ahhgrrlll... xx@@@!!... ;-( ). After THAT experience I really wish I were smarter and just compiled everything in the tree with "-g". That would have saved me lots of pain (the actual problem is a race-condition when a shell creates a pipe chain and uses |posix_spawn()| to create the process group leader (short: Debugging-horror)). Therefore it would be nice to have a general purpose "catch all" switch in "bldenv" which compiles the entire tree in a way that debuggers like dbx allow source-level debugging (which doesn't work for optimized code (well, it would be possible as seen in Unicos where the debugger allows source-level debugging of optimized code)), e.g. use "-g" (or even "-g -xs") and disable "-xO[0-5]" ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
