I see. My wrong assumption. But if it is not used, shouldn't all references to #ifdef DEBUG be erased in the source?

Dov

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 23:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:41:06 +0300
> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
> Cc: 11380@debbugs.gnu.org

>
> 3. configure and make by the following steps:
>
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/public-dev/ CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG CFLAGS="-g
> -O0"

Why are you compiling with -DDEBUG? That does nothing useful.