Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:09:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: -g vs -s
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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> I remember how meny questions followed after renaming libstdcx.a to
> libstdcxx.a. I'm afraid that defaulting to use -s when no debug info is
> requested will add at least one more MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION:
> 
> 	I built my project with rhide. Why rhide says that program 
>  	don't have debug info?
> 
> We cannot expect that all users will synchronusly update also rhide so 
> it's real that such question will be asked meny times.

I think we can expect that people upgrade rather quickly.  Newbies, in 
particular, usually download the latest version they can find.

The problem with -lstdcxx lasts so long because RHIDE was not updated for 
a long time.

> Also none of systems I have used defaults to use -s when no -g* options
> are used (Linux, AIX 4.3 on RS6000)

Borland does that.