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@@ -1020,7 +1020,21 @@ as usual, and Perl will be built in /tmp/perl/build/directory. You can run perl scripts under the perl debugger at any time with B<perl -d your_script>. If, however, you want to debug perl itself, -you probably want to do +you probably want to have support for perl internal debugging code +(activated by adding -DDEBUGGING to ccflags), and/or support for the +system debugger by adding -g to optimize. + + sh Configure -DDEBUGGING=<mode> + +For a more eye appealing call, -DEBUGGING is defined to be an alias +for -DDEBUGGING. For both, the -U calls are also supported, in order +to be able to overrule the hints or Policy.sh settings. + +=over 4 + +=item -DEBUGGING=old + +Which is the default, and supports the old convention of sh Configure -Doptimize='-g' @@ -1039,6 +1053,26 @@ L<"Propagating your changes to config.sh"> below.) You can actually specify -g and -DDEBUGGING independently, but usually it's convenient to have both. +=over 4 + +=item -DDEBUGGING + +=item -DEBUGGING + +=item -DEBUGGING=both + +Sets both -DDEBUGGING in the ccflags, and add -g to optimize. + +=item -DEBUGGING=-g + +Adds -g to optimize, but does not set -DDEBUGGING. + +=item -DEBUGGING=none + +Removes -g from optimize, and -DDEBUGGING from ccflags. + +=back + If you are using a shared libperl, see the warnings about multiple versions of perl under L<Building a shared Perl library>. |