Tim,

We're considering (re-)adding assert calls to the ghostscript library.
The general idea is to default to having them on in debug builds, and
off in release builds. (If you're fuzzy on the rules, as I was,
assert() calls abort() when a condition fails unless the magic NDEBUG
cpp symbol was defined when assert.h was included...and library's
calling abort() results in a poor user experience).

I'm curious how this will affect packagers, and in particular the
debuginfo packages fedora provides. I couldn't find much documentation
on that, but I gather the recommended practice to to hack -g into the
release build flags, and then rpmbuild produces both a stripped
executable and a debuginfo package. Does this also work on libraries?
Will however you're hacking in the -g flag maintain the NDEBUG define?

-r
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