[mythtv] Profile builds and debug code

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Sunday, 11 March 2012, Lawrence Rust <lvr at softsystem.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been profiling some Myth functions using the --compile-type=profile
> configure option and noticed that doing so results in Myth linking
> against debug builds of Qt libs.  This is selected in settings.pro:
>
> profile:CONFIG += debug
>
> I was wondering what the reason for this was?

Ah that explains why in the mac packager we had to create symlinks from Qt
libs to Qt debug libs...

>
> I'm of the opinion that profiling should be performed on a release build
> that's instrumented to record time spent etc.  If there's debugging code
> left in then the profiling won't be representative or useful to
> optimisers.  There's some existing support for removing debug code in
> that configure currently defines NDEBUG for profiled builds.
>
> What do you think?  Should debug be removed or left in?

I would remove it for all configuration, including debug profile even...

Debugging myth rarely means you want to delve into Qt
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