Hi hermida,
for beginners the INSTALL document is confusing indeed, I believe because of the complexity. I also had to read it several times to get a grasp.
In my case I think I confused Perl's 4 different debugging modes:
- -DDEBUGGING
- -DEBUGGING
- -DEBUGGING=both
with the actual script configuration settings which allow a user to fine-tune system dependent settings. For example I tried to enable Perl's -D command line switch to debug command line regular expressions, which by default is not enabled. I confused it because of the DDEBUGGING mode and it's alias DEBUGGING which can be set either together or separately.
So in my case it was a case of enabling both debugging modes by running the configuration script with:
./Configure -des -Doptimize=-g -DEBUGGING=-g
which activates Perl's -D command line switch (by setting C debugging preprocessor macro with -DEBUGGING=-g) and to activate system debugging.
I also read the debugging part of my gcc manual (man gcc) for any system related settings which uses the same -g flag.
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