Re: [rox-devel] Re: ROX-Filer 1.1.8 patches

[Filip V. R. <fi...@qb...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:54:41AM +0100, Bernard Jungen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:16:23PM +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 04:56:47AM +0100, Bernard Jungen wrote:
> > > Does anyone use the default gcc -g flag? It generates much bigger
> > > binaries.
> > 
> > All the binary packages strip it. Most programs turn it on by default
> > when
> > compiling from source.
> 
> Ok, but the question was: do *we* *need* it? Why is it on by default if we
> rarely need it?

Because it is good practice? It allows for debugging without having to
recompile everything.
It has been a (good) practice in virtually any project to always compile
with -g; stripping is something that should be done at install time
and not at compile time ("stripping at compile time" may not make a lot of
sense, it's actually compiling with debugging symbols, but you get the
idea).


Regards,

Filip

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