[boost] Re: Why do we build debug variants of our compiled libraries?

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-23 17:39:06

Doug Gregor wrote:
> 
> 
> Just the defaults. When the user types "bjam" I don't see why they 
> should get debug versions (except with MSVC; thanks John!). If they want 
> debug versions, they can of course use -sBUILD=debug to get them.
> 

Runtime linkage and debugging information are two different things and 
may be set sepeartely (I'm pretty sure John knows this - but some other 
readers may not. "Debug version" is ambiguous for Windows).