On Friday 06 December 2002 03:27 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > "Medland, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh. So how is setting --disable-debug supposed to result in the > > FIXMES being compiled out? I just don't understand what is > > supposed to be happening here; all I know is that it isn't working. > > (Or is that not what it is supposed to do?) > > It's what it's supposed to do, but it's clearly broken, and has been > for a very long time, basically because no one uses it. > > A possible fix is to hack configure to pass the flags on the compiler > command-line; another is to remove the configure option completely > and just tell people who really want it to do something like: > > make clean > make all EXTRADEFS=-DNO_DEBUG_MSGS
Unfortunately, I've seen packagers use it. Gentoo, for example, uses it. And I could see the logic: why would joe user want all these gibberish messages dumping onto the console while he's trying to work? So, eliminating this from configure might be a good call IMHO, at least until we get it working. Perhaps the wrapper scripts should control where the debugging output goes. I.E.: we could support (1) the usual stuff (2) appending debug output to a log file or (3) appending debug output to /dev/null, without messing with DNO_DEBUG_MSGS.... just a thought, -- gmt
