[gdb/build] Fix adding -DNDEBUG to python flags of release build
In gdb/configure the line:
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$development || tentative_python_cflags="$tentative_python_cflags -DNDEBUG"
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intends to ensure that -DNDEBUG is added to the python flags of a release
build.
However, when building gdb-14-branch we have:
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configure:22024: checking compiler flags for python code
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configure:22047: result: -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
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This is a regression since commit
db6878ac553 ("Move sourcing of development.sh
to GDB_AC_COMMON"), which introduced a reference before assignment:
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$development || tentative_python_cflags="$tentative_python_cflags -DNDEBUG"
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. $srcdir/../bfd/development.sh
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and consequently -DNDEBUG is never added.
[ This was not obvious to me, but apparently evaluating an empty or undefined
variable in this context is similar to using ':' or 'true', so the line is
evaluated as:
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true || tentative_python_cflags="$tentative_python_cflags -DNDEBUG"
... ]
Fix this by moving GDB_AC_COMMON up in gdb/configure.ac, similar to how that
was done for gdbserver/configure.ac in commit
db6878ac553.
[ Unfortunately, the move might introduce issues similar to the one we're
fixing, and I'm not sure how to check for this. Shellcheck doesn't detect
this type of problem. FWIW, I did run shellcheck (using arguments -xa, in the
src/gdb directory to make sure ../bfd/development.sh is taken into account)
before and after and observed that the number of lines/words/chars in the
shellcheck output is identical. ]
Build & tested on top of trunk.
Also build on top of gdb-14-branch, and observed this in gdb/config.log:
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configure:25214: checking compiler flags for python code
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configure:25237: result: -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DNDEBUG
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Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR build/31099
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31099