Thanks!

Using the configure options --enable-debug --enable-curldebug worked.

Using the CFLAGS environment variable didn't work (yes I exported it).

- Saqib

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:15:40PM -0500, Saqib Ali wrote:
> > I'm trying to build cURLwith the -g compiler option for enhanced
> debugging.
> > cc's man page says that compiling with -g produces additional symbol
> table
> > information for dbx.
> >
> > But I'm not sure how to do build cURL with the -g flag. I'm on Solaris
> machine
> > running SunOS 5.10. Trying to build Curl 7.21.3
> >
> > This is what I attempted: I set the environment variable CFLAGS=-g, then
> ran
> > configure (which completed), then did make. But the compilation of the
> files
> > doesn't include the -g flag as I had expected. It looks the same as it
> did
> > without the CFLAGS environment variable set. Here is an example of a file
> being
> > compiled:
>
> Theoretically, that should have worked (did you export that
> variable?). But curl has some autoconf macros (in m4/curl-compilers.m4)
> that try to detect the compiler being used and play with some of the
> flags, including the debug flag. If the compiler is supported (and
> Solaris appears to be) the giving the --enable-debug configure option
> should be enough to have -g added automatically.
>
> >>> Dan
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