Re: debug builds with NO optimizations

[Harlan Stenn]

> If it sucks, it seems to be exceedingly minor suckage to me since you 
> can have as many build trees as you want using one source tree. 
> Sometimes it is easier to go with the flow.

You have clearly not spent much time with large auto*-based build
systems.

I'm talking about software packages that, on hot machines, take 30-45
minutes to do a "configure" run.

Then take into consideration that each developer gets to do this, and
on software this large there are lots of developers.

H