FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> I'll try to install rpm 4.x on the build box.  I'm intending 
> a source rpm,
> not an i386 binary.  OK?  
> 

Ok, but I don't know how to build only a source rpm... I always built source
rpm AND i386...

> > 
> > strip remove debugging information, not debugging code. All 
> assert or
> > logging are still there...
> 
> I see.  
> 
> I think assert() on most platforms is a no-op when compiled 
> without -g (or
> whatever "release mode" flags the compiler uses.  
> 
> We have two mechanisms available to quiet the debugging and 
> logging output:
> 
> 
> 1.  #ifdef NDEBUG.  Is this standard?  Is any such thing?  
> 2.  g_debug_lvl.  I would prefer an enumerated type: 
>     enum tds_debug_level {release, testing, debugging, 
> insecure, maximum};
> Functions to set/get g_debug_lvl (in src/tds/util.c), and the 
> log writer
> tdsdump_log() would respect the setting.  
> 

NDEBUG is the standard for assert. For tdsdump_log... no idea... I was
thinking using some macro processing for do not compile at all (instead if
calling a function that do nothing...) but perhaps is not possible...

> Is that enough?  We could set the default to "debugging".  
> 
> On that topic, it seems we have eliminated login packets from the log.
> That's more secure, but makes debugging login problems more 
> difficult.  I
> haven't looked into this, though, so I might be a little 
> behind the state of
> logging art.  
> 

I didn't know this...

freddy77

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