On 03/21/2016 10:47 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 14:56, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com 
> <mailto:hongxu.jia@windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     +PACKAGECONFIG[debug] = "--enable-debug=yes, --enable-debug=no"
>
>
> There's an explicit --enable-debug in EXTRA_OECONF,

Yes, we should remove the duplicated --enable-debug in EXTRA_OECONF

> and reading the configure --help shows that the "off" mode should be 
> --enable-debug=minimum as "no" removes the GLib checks which can 
> result in crashes if bad data is passed to the API.

./configure --help
...
   --enable-debug          Compile with debug checks. [no/yes/minimum,
                           default=minimum]
...

vim ./configure.ac
...
121 dnl Default to debug spew in unstable branch
122 AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug,
123   AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-debug],
124     [Compile with debug checks. @<:@no/yes/minimum, 
default=minimum@:>@]),
125   , enable_debug=minimum)
126
127 if test "x$enable_debug" = "xyes"; then
128   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DGCONF_ENABLE_DEBUG=1"
129   AC_MSG_NOTICE([Will build with debugging spew and checks])
130 else
131   if test "x$enable_debug" = "xno"; then
132     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS=1 -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT=1"
133     AC_MSG_NOTICE([Will build without *any* debugging code])
134   else
135     AC_MSG_NOTICE([Will build with debug checks but no debug spew])
136   fi
137 fi
...

vim gconf/gconfd.c
...
  384 #ifdef GCONF_ENABLE_DEBUG
  385   /* -- Debug only */
  386
  387   if (addresses == NULL)
  388     {
  389       gconf_log(GCL_DEBUG, _("gconfd compiled with debugging; 
trying to load gconf.path from the source directory"));
  390       conffile = g_strconcat(GCONF_SRCDIR, "/gconf/gconf.path", NULL);
  391       addresses = gconf_load_source_path(conffile, NULL);
  392       g_free(conffile);
  393     }
  394
  395   /* -- End of Debug Only */
  396 #endif
...

If we could not use '--enable-debug=yes' to fix build paths issue,
and as your suggested it should not remove check and assert,
so minimum is the best choice.

//Hongxu

>
> Ross