Re: Developer_CFLAGS

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:20PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:08:44AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     >      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     >      
     >      > Can anyone suggest an appropriate way in which we can set some
     >      > additional CFLAGS which are seen by developers, but not in 
tarballs
     >      > intended for the general public?
     >      
     >      Add an "--enable-developer-mode", I guess?  (We already have
     >      something like that for --with-gui-tools, right?)
     >      
     >      > Eg: -DGDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE=1  etc.
     >      
     >      What does that do?
     >
     > It disables certain parts the the API which might cause problems when
     > running applications on a system with more than one display.
     
     Can you explain why we would want that for developers but not for
     users?

I guess it was a bad example.  GDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED is probably a
better example.

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