Re: Still a few flaws in configure's default CFLAGS selection

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Also, I thought Peter advocated adding -g a few releases back.  I didn't
> > > agree, but I lost the vote, so I thought it was done.  Were we
> > > supresssing -g in older releases?  Peter?
> > 
> > I don't recall any such vote.  Had we done that, we'd have removed
> > --enable-debug, I'd think.
> 
> The vote was whether -g should be used for a default compile.  Of course
> --enable-debug would continue using -g.  Maybe we kept --enable-debug
> for backward compatibility or to force -g if you modified CFLAGS?

Here is the thread discussing the -g flag:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-04/msg00281.php

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