[syslinux] ISOLINUX users - debugging on by default?

[Marc Haisenko]

On Friday 17 December 2004 09:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm considering the suggestion which was raised before about turning the
> debugging messages on by default in isolinux, or specifically, not
> building the non-debugging-messages version in the standard distribution.
>
> What do people think (especially distro maintainers?)

I think that's a good idea, as people who build ISO/SYSLINUX themselves will 
certainly find some additional messages useful and maintainers won't have 
trouble turning it off. But I suggest documenting in the README file or 
isolinux.doc how to turn them off for the "normal" users.

How do you turn them on right now, -DDEBUG ? If so I'd make that a variable at 
the top of the Makefile, e.g.
ISOLINUXDEBUG=-DDEBUG
that the user can comment out.

Disclaimer: I only maintain a small semi-embedded in-house Linux distro with 
which we're doing our products... not a "big, full-featured distro" 
maintainer. And since we're only using SYSLINUX I'm not really affected 
currently ;-)

C'ya,
	Marc

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