Re: weird flags set by configure

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden <address@hidden> [2002-11-04 12:43:48 +0200]:
> Small question:
> 
> Why do my autoconf-generated configure scripts automatically fit in
> debugging info "-g -O2" (or -g if I ask nicely?)
> When I compile release versions of my code, how do I (elegantly) ask
> automake, or rather autoconf (through autoconf.in) to omit this from
> CXXFLAGS?

GCC is viewed as being able to debug (-g) and optimize (-O2) at the
same time without any detriment.  Then if you want to strip the binary
to remove the debug information you can.  The make target to install
and strip is 'install-strip'.  Therefore the default is generally
good.

If the compiler is not GCC then it only adds debugging (-g) and stops
there since most compilers can't do both at the same time.

If you want to change this you can set CXXFLAGS at configure time.

  CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O ./configure

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Bob