Where is/does/can MacPorts disable assert()s in C++ code?

[Leo Singer]

Hi,

I am preparing a new Portfile submission, HTCondor, http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/. The port is not working as expected, and I am almost certain that it is because a bug in the upstream source where some critical code is placed in a C++ assert() call, and is being preprocessed away to nothing. I have not discovered if or how the '-DNDEBUG' compiler flag is being passed to wipe out assertions; the text 'NDEBUG' doesn't show up in the MacPorts debug-level output (sudo port -d install).

Is there any other mechanism by which MacPorts or CMake would or does disable assertions by default?

This package is built with CMake and I am using the CMake portgroup.

Thanks,
Leo Singer
Graduate Student @ LIGO-Caltech