[pacman-dev] Does anyone use ALPM_LOG_FUNC?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Jun 3 18:19:49 EDT 2011


On 04/06/11 03:45, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:12:32AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
>> It isn't even enabled in non-debug builds, so this seems like a
>> not-so-useful feature as a debugger and/or a few printf() calls will
>> help you do anything this can, and will be a lot less crazy. If there
>> are no objections I'd like to kill it. The motivation for this change
>> will be shared soon as well.
>>
>
> I've not found myself in a situation where I could have needed something
> like this without also wanting features from gdb. +1 for killing it.
>

I agree to get rid of it.  Half the functions do not have it in use 
anyway so gdp/printf usage is usually required to track down any issue.

Allan


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