Default +universal variant for configure-based ports

David MacMahon davidm at astro.berkeley.edu
Tue Feb 27 11:25:04 PST 2007


On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:20 , Kevin Ballard wrote:
> I'm still trying to figure out why everybody keeps suggesting to  
> pass -g. Even if autoconf does it by default (which I don't think  
> it should), that doesn't mean we should.

I think the idea is that if you build without -g then when things go  
boom you have no (or very little) info about where things went boom.   
Plus, the extra debugging info can always be removed post-build but  
it can't be inserted post-build.

Dave





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