Re: ENABLE_SYMBOLS=true does nothing

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 of October 2012, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > > I'd prefer to not bring it back because of a special use case that's
> > > > already easily doable as it is.
> > >
> > > Well tinderbox works nicely and easily with an autogen.lastrun
> > > associated with a given profile...
> > > messing with env variable is not as neat and is just a pain when
> > > managing many of these profile...
> > > what is the harm of --enable-symbol ?
> >
> >  ./configure --enable-symbol
> >  ./configure CXXFLAGS='-Os -g'

more complex, not portable, possible quoting issue etc...
but let me turn the question around:

what do we gain by _not_ having --enable-symbol ?

Norbert