ENABLE_SYMBOLS=true does nothing

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 31 of October 2012, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
>>> > I'd prefer to not bring it back because of a special use case that's
>>> > already easily doable as it is.
>>>
>>> Well tinderbox works nicely and easily with an autogen.lastrun
>>> associated with a given profile...
>>> messing with env variable is not as neat and is just a pain when
>>> managing many of these profile...
>>> what is the harm of --enable-symbol ?
>>
>>  ./configure --enable-symbol
>>  ./configure CXXFLAGS='-Os -g'

more complex, not portable, possible quoting issue etc...
but let me turn the question around:

what do we gain by _not_ having --enable-symbol ?

Norbert