[Dev] Re: build instructions on the wiki

Andi Vajda vajda at osafoundation.org
Wed Jan 18 10:58:18 PST 2006


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Alec Flett wrote:

> Debug is generally only for debugging some of the C++ libraries, like wx. 
> I've been working at OSAF for a year now and I haven't done a debug build in 
> over 8 months.. I've gotten by just fine. I think this might be worth 
> mentioning.

The Debug also runs python with Py_DEBUG which tracks and validates memory 
which would be useful for debugging C Python API calls and memory leaks. At 
some point, the latter is going to become relevant, no ?

Andi..



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