How to supress debug symbols?

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-May-2009, Alexander Mamonov wrote:

| I'm trying to compile Octave from the recent sources (MinGW TDM gcc
| 4.3.0), and I want to keep the size of the resulting ddl's small. I
| tried adding -Wl,--strip-debug to LDFLAGS, but it seems that it does
| not affect anything. After ./configure I can see my LDFLAGS being
| added to Makeconf, but when the dll is built, I do not see my LDFLAGS
| in the console output. If I hack Makeconf and add -Wl,--strip-debug to
| SH_LDFLAGS it works, but this is of course very ugly way of doing
| things. What is the proper way to build Octave without debug symbols?

If you don't want debugging symbols, then don't use -g in CXXFLAGS,
CFLAGS, and FFLAGS.

jwe