Steve Searle wrote: > I have started using autotools for the C++ applications I create (very > much as an amateur). I typically use assert statements during > development, and would disable these by using -DNDEBUG when the release > version is built. How should I configure things so that when a user > installs from the tarball they compile by default with the -DNDEBUG > option? You shouldn't. You have 2 reasonable choices: 1) Invoke AC_HEADER_ASSERT in configure.ac, giving the user the option to pass --disable-assert to configure. 2) Do nothing, and allow the user to pass CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG to configure. You might choose to set -DNDEBUG in AM_CPPFLAGS, but it really is best to let the user do it. If you want to ensure that assertions are disabled in binary builds, then add the appropriate argument to the configure invocation in the build file (eg, debian/rules or a spec file). -- William Pursell _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
