--enable-debugging

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Fri Feb 11 13:37:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:23:22PM -0800, Matt wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> I've modified the snapshot script to add --enable-debugging in the
>> configure command.  This may help us track down some problems people
>> have been reporting.  If you have your own build, please add
>> --enable-debugging to your configure as well.  Hopefully we'll find
>> more bugs (and their solutions ;) this way.
>> 
>> Tonight's snapshot will be the first with this option, assuming it works.
>
>A suggestion--
>
>Gathering lint output on the code with each automated build would help as
>well. This is something we started doing at my work and it has been really
>useful in tracking down bugs while relieving individual developers from
>the efforts of running lint on their code and relying on them to go
>through the output themselves on a regular basis. 

The cygwin code is already compiled with -Wall.  I suppose that it is possible
that lint could pick up more errors but I actually don't have a lint on my
Red Hat 6.0 system and it would have to be lint++ to handle C++, wouldn't it?

cgf


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