[Mesa-dev] No more make clean!

[Brian Paul]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 2012 7:23 AM, "Brian Paul" <brianp at vmware.com> 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?

I don't think we need that.  Personally, I just keep a cheatsheet file
with the autoconf commands that I use most often.

-Brian