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

David Tardon dtardon at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 00:50:20 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:01:42 +0100, David Tardon wrote:
> 1)
> > one would just run build -- dbglevel=2 in the desired module similarly
> > as one runs build -- debug=true today.
> 
> 2)
> > As an alternative, we could add optional level argument to
> > --enable-debug or add another option, say, --enable-assertions, that
> > would do the same thing as --enable-debug and export dbglevel=1 in
> > addition.
> 
> 2) is more complicated, but also more discoverable and explicitely
> documented. I dislike secret ENVVARIABLE incarnations that enable things
> and not easily discoverable without trawling through READMEs.

But you'd need the variable anyway, because, as I have said, full
dbglevel=2 build is hardly a sensible thing to do. You'd be drowned in
the output :-)

D.


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