Integrated DEBUG related macros to WITH_DEBUG/WITHOUT_DEBUG

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday, 13. November 2005 09:16, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:00:21AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > I don't think it's a good idea at all to unify all debug knobs
> > into one universal WITH/WITHOUT_DEBUG - it requires the user to use a
> > third party portmanager utilitiy or fiddling with conditionals in
> > make.conf if he wants debug symbols on specific ports only.
>
> Well that goes for the other knobs as well of course -- WITH_PERL,
> WITH_PYTHON and other programming extension languages come to mind, as
> do NOPORTDOCS and WITHOUT_GUI (there are some things that I don't need
> a GUI for on my desktop).

And people have expressed their unhappiness with that status quo repeatedly, 
especially in the context of OPTIONS.

One very promising proposed solution was to extend the OPTIONS framework to 
support NO_OPTIONS_<portname> and WITH|WITHOUT_<option_choice>_<portname>.

I agree that this is the way to go - making the currently available switches 
even more ambiguous just in order to get more content into KNOBS is 
contraproductive.

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