Re: [AD] Fortify and Allegro

[Hein Zelle <hein@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:

> > It's not counterintuitive, it's simply broken: you can't 
> > silently discard a 
> > configure option without telling the user.

I'm getting confused here. I'm assuming that using fortify without
debug mode is not of much use, right? If so, why not just

--enable-dbglib    :  does what it has always done
--enable-dbgprogs  :  likewise

--enable-fortify   :  turn on fortify if dbg has been specified for
                      lib or programs

and then yell a big fat warning at the user that

Fortify was requested without --dbglib:   not building fortified lib.
Fortify was requested without --dbgprogs: not building fortified programs.

Or just give one BIG warning and turn on both --dbglib and
--dbgprogs. If someone wants fortify, they're bound to want those
flags anyway, as far as I can tell.

Hein Zelle

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