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From: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>, 11379@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11379: emacs 24; compilation fails in debug mode
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 00:15:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1SOysA-0006c9-Ib@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vkbom9rsov.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

>Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>
>>   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/public-dev/ CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG CFLAGS="-g
>> -O0"
>
>FYI, there is no "debug mode" for compiling Emacs.
>Or rather, if there is, it is to configure with --enable-checking or
>something similar.
>
>-DDEBUG appears to be something that the authors of a few specialized
>files have used for their own convenience; or was inherited from files
>that also lived outside Emacs at one time. So I wouldn't expect to get
>much out of trying to compile all of Emacs with it (why did you try?).
>
>In the particular case of etags, it may well be referring to some
>external .h file that the maintainer wrote for his own use.
>(maybe http://fly.isti.cnr.it/pub/software/C/chkmalloc.h ?)

Yes, that's it.  It makes no sense using -DDEBUG while compiling etags
outside of the development environment I use to maintain etags.





      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-30 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-29 17:41 bug#11379: emacs 24; compilation fails in debug mode Dov Grobgeld
2012-04-30 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-30 22:15   ` Francesco Potortì [this message]

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