This patch causes the --enable-debug-runtime configure flag and the
DEBUG_RUNTIME Makefile variable to pass -g to gcc when building LLVM's objects.
Without this, it's very hard to debug crashes that happen in Release-Asserts
mode but not Debug mode.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@82775 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
diff --git a/docs/MakefileGuide.html b/docs/MakefileGuide.html
index f996144..8e55248 100644
--- a/docs/MakefileGuide.html
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@@ -626,6 +626,11 @@
<dd>If set to any value, causes a bitcode library (.bc) to be built.</dd>
<dt><a name="CONFIG_FILES"><tt>CONFIG_FILES</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies a set of configuration files to be installed.</dd>
+ <dt><a name="DEBUG_RUNTIME"><tt>DEBUG_RUNTIME</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>If set to any value, causes the build to include debugging
+ symbols even in optimized objects, libraries and executables. This
+ alters the flags specified to the compilers and linkers. Debugging
+ isn't fun in an optimized build, but it is possible.</dd>
<dt><a name="DIRS"><tt>DIRS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies a set of directories, usually children of the current
directory, that should also be made using the same goal. These directories