[GRASS5] Re: GRASS 5.3 windows

[Glynn Clements]

Richard Greenwood wrote:

> I think I see my mistake: 'make strip' strips from the files in the
> dist.i686-pc-cygwin directory. But 'make bindist' uses the files from
> the actual installation directory e.g.  /usr/local/grass53
> 
> Is this assumption correct?

Yes.

> And if so, why does bindist use the files
> from the installation directory rather than the dist.i686-pc-cygwin
> directory?

I don't know.

> And why does 5.3 seem to include debugging symbols when 5.0 and 5.7 do
> not? In all 3 cases I am configuring with:
>    CFLAGS="-O2"
>    LDFLAGS="-s -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib"

I have no idea. Any LDFLAGS settings should be honoured. Does the "-s"
actually show up in the link commands? Is it in the value of
LINK_FLAGS in src/CMD/head/head.<arch> (gmake build system) or
mk/vars.mk (alternate build system)?

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>