On May 25, 2012 7:23 AM, "Brian Paul" <<a href="mailto:brianp@vmware.com">brianp@vmware.com</a>> wrote: > > On 05/24/2012 05:45 PM, Eric Anholt wrote: >> >> It still has the flaw that changes to source lists and Makefile.ams >> don't rebuild Makefile as often as they should. This is because our >> top-level Makefile isn't in automake, and has just a stub am-refresh >> target. I have a series to convert that, but it means getting rid of >> the static configs. I'd love to see them die (they're just a trap >> these days), but I'll wait on that for another patchbomb. > > > I'm fine with removing the old/static configs. I've been using autoconf for a few months now and I'm mostly happy with it. > > One thing I wish was different is the --enable-debug option. It adds -g to the command line, but the -O2 flag is still there and that sometimes causes trouble in gdb. > > To fix that I have to do "CFLAGS=-g ./autogen ...." Could we fix the --enable-debug option to remove -O2? In my own automake branch that I stalled on I had the idea of turning the static configs into configure wrapper scripts that just help you do known things like set debug flags. Any interest? Dan