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Re: Developer_CFLAGS
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Developer_CFLAGS |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:52:20 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
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?
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