[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2746) Include debug setting in config.h

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:44:38AM -0800, Gregory Berkolaiko via RT wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Raimar Falke via RT wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:34:15PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > How can I get 'experimental' AIs? I recompiled with debug==yes, and
> > > > started civserver with debug 3, with no avail.
> > > 
> > > Make sure you recompile stdinhand.o (by deleting this file before
> > > recompile).
> > > 
> > >   # rm server/stdinhand.o; ./autogen.sh --with-debug=yes && make
> > > 
> > > should suffice. Then
> > > 
> > >   /create chris
> > >   /experi chris
> > > 
> > > should do the job.
> > 
> > This is necessary because we don't include the debug setting in
> > config.h (which we should). A patch should be easy.
> 
> The advantage is that the whole thing _automatically_ recompiles when you 
> change the debug settings.
> 
> The disadvantage is that the _whole_thing_ automatically recompiles when 
> you change the debug settings.
> 
> On the computer I have at home total recompile takes very long time...

Use ccache (you know the trade-time-with-memory thing). This isn't a
good reason to allow building bad code. If the speed was a problem we
wouldn't had config.h in every .c file.

        Raimar

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