any way to generate debug AND non-debug releases?

[allen]

I would like to be able to build both debug and release builds of
some libraries and apps that are using the GNU build system. It seems
that there must be an easy way to specify multiple targets (one simply
stripped of symbols). Can anyone point me to some docs or have
suggestions on how this can be achieved with the GNU autoconf/automake
/libtool/make/gcc toolchain?

many thanks in advance...

-allen