Kyle VanderBeek <kvbeek@calvin.edu> writes:
> During compilation of squid, I noticed that it includes the -g flag for
> gcc. As far as I know, on all platforms that includes debugging code for
> GDB. One of the results is a much larger binary, which I don't like and
> would like to eliminate on my production server. Related to this I'd like
> to have the following questions answered:
Keep in mind that on all reasonable systems debugging information
takes space on disk and not in RAM.
> Is there a good reason to include -g that I am overlooking?
If the program fails and you want to do any kind of debugging on the
coredump.
> Is there an easy way to tell the configure script not to include it or do
> I have to keep going through Makefiles and removing it after the fact?
make AC_CFLAGS='-Wall -O2' LDFLAGS=''
or
CFLAGS='-Wall -O2' LDFLAGS=' ' configure
/assar
Received on Fri Apr 04 1997 - 16:08:47 MST
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