[Libreoffice] use dbglevel=1 for --enable-debug builds?

David Tardon dtardon at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 00:55:47 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:01:42PM +0100, David Tardon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> currently, configuring with --enable-debug means that dbglevel is set to
> 2, which in turns means that OSL_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 2. This enables
> all the OSL_ debugging stuff there is (well, maybe there is some really
> rare stuff that is only enabled for OSL_DEBUG_LEVEL > 2, but I don't
> know about any), which spews unbelievable amount of stuff on stdout.
> 
> If we used dbglevel=1 as default, only assertions would be enabled and
> the output would be much more manageable (practically nonexistent in
> most cases, from my experience). My hope is that more devs would just be
> configuring with --enable-debug and using/fixing assertions. The full
> debug build would still be easily available: one would just run
> build -- dbglevel=2 in the desired module similarly as one runs
> build -- debug=true today.
> 
> From impl. standpoint: AFAIK this would require one-line change in
> solenv/inc/settins.mk .
> 

The few replies support the idea, so I've committed it.

D.


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