Bug 63318 – [GTK] Add more debug options to compilation

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Currently --enable-debug option (used by debug builds) include the following:
 - Add -g flag to compile with debug symbols
 - Disable compiler optimizations
 - Disable fast malloc
 - Compile with deprecated flags
 - Other debug features: assertions enabled, some debug code, etc.

Compiler optimizations and fast malloc can be enabled/disabled when debug is not enabled, but all other options depends directly on --enable-debug. 

The other day I wanted to debug and assertion, but I didn't want to build with debug symbols, because it's very slow, so I manually disabled debug symbols and I realized it's really useful to build with debug features enabled but without debug symbols. Martin suggested that building with debug symbols, but without debug features like assertions, would be useful too. So I think we could add options to enabled/disable debug symbols and all other debug features.

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Created attachment 98473 [details]
Patch

The patch adds to options:

 - --enable-debug-symbols: whether to add -g or not
 - --enable-debug-features: whether to define NDEBUG macro and compile with deprecated flags or not

Both options are unconditionally enabled for debug builds.

[Martin Robinson]

Comment on attachment 98473 [details]
Patch

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=98473&action=review

> configure.ac:1238
> + Enable debug features                                    : $enable_debug_features

Should probably keep the (slow) tag here since it adds assertions and disables TCMalloc.

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Committed r89675: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/89675>

[Philippe Normand]

*** Bug 58773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***