On 02/19/2011 12:35 PM, Richard Schütz wrote: >> How do I add a debugging flag? Do I use CFLAGS=-DEBUG? CPPFLAGS=-DEBUG? add >> --enable-debug? I've checked ./configure --help and it is silent on the issue. >> I've added the --enable-debug below. It builds fine, but is only slightly larger >> than the original: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 274088 Feb 19 12:12 libxcb-1.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz >> -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 273996 Feb 19 11:46 libxcb-1.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sav >> >> Do I need to enable debugging in another manner? > > You must add 'options=(!strip)' to the PKGBUILD. Otherwise the debugging symbols > will be removed by makepkg automatically after the build process. > > 'export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"' and 'export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -g"' tell the > compiler to build the binaries with debugging symbols. > That's better: -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 295756 Feb 19 13:11 libxcb-1.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 273996 Feb 19 11:46 libxcb-1.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sav -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.