[gdal-dev] Debug builds on Unix

[Ari Jolma]

Frank Warmerdam kirjoitti:
> also reworked how debug builds are requested for GDAL on unix-like 
> builds.
>

> While I don't especially love this approach, it seems to be inline 
> with unix
> packaging standards and will hopefully make GDAL easier for folks to 
> use since
> it works more like everything else.

Why not have something like --enable-debug for configure? For example 
GTK seems to have that switch. What are these unix packaging standards 
that you refer to?

I've always found it difficult to turn on the debugging since it's been 
through this environment variable.

Regards,

Ari

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