[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Misc issues with gnustep-base

[Yavor Doganov]

Eric Heintzmann wrote:
> Why enabling debug fo GNUstep when noopt is present ?

I'm afraid I don't understand the question.  Usually you build with
noopt when you can't debug due to optimization.  IOW, when the default
-O2 gets into into the way and you can't figure out what's going on in
gdb.  This is quite often the case with GNUstep software when you have
to inspect an object or a struct that gets optimized.

The "debug" option is named that way precisely because of the aid it
provides during debugging.  See the comments in common.make.  The
stripping of debugging symbols is controlled with "strip" in
gnustep-make and "nostrip" in Debian (handled automatically by
debhelper).  They are separate things but in practice are closely
related.