On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:49:21PM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> > Well, actually, I think you're only confusing the issue with
> > '-DVDKDEBUG'. -dbg is for versions of libraries which debugging
> > symbols exposed so that problems may be debugged. Compiling with a
> > different define, at least in my opinion, lowers the usefulness of the
> > -dbg package since it's actually different (i.e., a bug for libfoo
> > might not show up in libfoo-dbg, since different *code* may be
> > included.).
>
> -DVDKDEBUG increase the debugging level, not lowers it. The source code
> has a lot of code between #ifdef -- #endif statements, which will not be
> compiled if this flag is not set. Therefore I think makeing my -dbg with
> it is a good thing.
No :) Because this method is usually used to debug the LIBRARY while the -dbg
packages are used to debug the program you wrote using that lib. If you really
think the library is buggy you have to install the source anyway.
> TIA,
>
> Ionutz
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Torsten
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