Re: common.make -- debug=yes

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 19 Aug 2016, at 00:10, Giah de Barag <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> You are of course correct that it does not preclude it. On certain systems I 
> too have happily debugged optimized code. On my present system (gdb 7.6.1, 
> gcc 4.9.3, msys/mingw32, Windows Server 2008 R2) I must say debugging -O2 
> optimized code is definitely inconvenient, often tiresome, sometimes 
> impossible.
> 
> GNUstep Makefile Package documentation [1] says if debug=yes, optimization is 
> off. (It further says that the user must override the optimization flag if 
> both debugging information and optimization are desired.)
> 
> Note that OPTFLAG := $(filter-out -O%, $(OPTFLAG)) clearly intends to do so 
> but fails because the optimization flag already entered ADDITIONAL_FLAGS 
> (hence the suggested patch).
> 
> Ref:
> [1] “make debug=yes” at  
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/make_1.html

Yep.  I applied your patch.  Thanks.