On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM, David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
>
> I noticed that several packages build Sage with the -g option to ,
> which adds debugging information. This has 3 downsides
>
> 1) The binaries are slower
> 2) The binaries are bigger
> 3) Possibly takes longer to compile - I've not verified this, but I
> suspect it does.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to remove the -g flag in general. As
> far as I am aware, there is the SAGE_DEBUG variable, which should be
> set to 1 for debugging. I'm doing this from memory, not testing it as
> I write, but
>
> #!/bin/bash
> debug="${SAGE_DEBUG-0}"
>
> if [ x$debug = "x1" ] ; then
> Â CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
> fi
> should add -g only when the environment variable SAGE_DEBUG is set to 1.
>
>
> DaveI agree with the above. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
