Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 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?
I can't see why we would have kept --enable-debug if we intended to make
-g be default anyway. Backwards compatibility is not an issue, because
configure simply ignores --enable switches it doesn't recognize (another
questionable autoconf design decision, but I digress). And if you are
setting CFLAGS for yourself, you are surely capable of adding -g to it
if you want; why would you type seven times as much to accomplish the
same thing?
regards, tom lane
