From kde-devel  Thu Apr 29 07:54:31 1999
From: Mathias Kettner <kettner () suse ! de>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:54:31 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: SuSE and kdebug
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92537247332721

Hello,

As I understood NDEBUG, its behaviour should be:

 - Everything should work and compile, regardless,
   which packages are compiled with NDEBUG and 
   which not.

 - Exactly those application that are compiled
   without NDEBUG procude debugging information

 - Those applications that are compiled
   with NDEBUG should proced no debbuging information
   AT ALL. For a GUI application this means:
   nothing to stdout (cout), nothing to stderr (cerr).

For example: If kdelibs is compiled with NDEBUG, this should not mean,
that the general debugging system is turned of, but only, that there
should be no debugging message of kdelibs itself.

If ksomething is compiled without NDEBUG, it should print debbuging
output, regardless of kdelibs being compiled with NDEBUG or not.

Well, maybe you have another understanding of the flag NDEBUG. If
so, please tell me, and we will adapt our packages. Out aim ist:
No debbugging output for the user. Debugging output ist something
for developers. For users it is very confusing (as our supporters
can report...)



     Gruss,
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