macros.cmake: set -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=ReleaseWithDebInfo by default

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 11/13/2012 02:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de
> <mailto:rc040203 at freenet.de>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/13/2012 05:05 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>         I own several packages that use cmake and I've taken to setting the
>         release type to RelWithDebugInfo like you suggest. One question
>         I've had
>         but never gotten around to asking is: Regardless of whether you use
>         Release or RelWithDebugInfo, should we be building with -O3? It
>         seems
>         odd that the rpm macro defaults to doing something that is
>         explicitly
>         against the packaging guidelines.
>
>
>     Your sentence confuses me or I am missing somthing.
>
>     The FPG intention is to mandate using RPM_OPT_FLAGS. These so far
>     have contained -O2. So, unless something has recently been changed,
>     using -O3 would qualify as a bug somewhere.
>
>
> And regardless, the question is if -O3 is explicitly against the
> guidelines, why is it in the rpm macros file at all.
-03 isn't directly against the guidelines.

Not using or overriding vital parts of RPM_OPT_FLAGS is against the 
guidelines.

Overriding optimization levels (here: -O3) would be amongst these 
"prohibited items".

Ralf