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patch #9674: ax_check_enable_debug: Default to "yes", not "no"

Submitter:  Debarshi Ray <debarshiray>
Submitted:  Mon 13 Aug 2018 10:41:10 AM UTC
   
 
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  Need Info
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 09:06:13 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Could you please document the new behavior (and your rationale for it) in the macro's documentation to make the behavior more obvious to new users?

Peter Simons <simons>
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Mon 13 Aug 2018 10:41:10 AM UTC, original submission:  

The documentation doesn't state what the default value of the first argument would be, if none is specified. However, reading the code (eg., "empty mean debug yes") and the commit messages (eg., commit 407ddbbc953737a6) it does seem that the first argument is meant to default to "yes", whereas in reality the default is "no".

That is surprising because if someone is using the following snippet, then all builds, release or non-release, default to "no":
    AX_IS_RELEASE([git-directory])
    AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG()

Why would anybody want that if they explicitly chose to use the
AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG?

Therefore, it is better to switch the default to "yes".

There's no need to sanitize the enable_debug variable after AC_ARG_ENABLE. It's going to be set to the default value if neither --enable-debug nor --disable-debug are present. If they are present, it's going to be set to "yes" or "no" respectively, or whatever value was explicitly specified.

Debarshi Ray <debarshiray>

 

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file #44769:  0001-ax_check_enable_debug-Default-to-yes-not-no.patch added by debarshiray (3KiB - text/x-patch - ax_check_enable_debug: Default to "yes", not "no")

 

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