improve help for -Ddebug

"Debug" is not a very helpful help message.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
pull/10324/head
Paolo Bonzini 3 years ago committed by Eli Schwartz
parent 8ed151bbd7
commit e4d9ba5c9e
  1. 2
      docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md
  2. 2
      mesonbuild/coredata.py

@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ machine](#specifying-options-per-machine) section for details.
| auto_features {enabled, disabled, auto} | auto | Override value of all 'auto' features | no | no |
| backend {ninja, vs,<br>vs2010, vs2012, vs2013, vs2015, vs2017, vs2019, vs2022, xcode} | ninja | Backend to use | no | no |
| buildtype {plain, debug,<br>debugoptimized, release, minsize, custom} | debug | Build type to use | no | no |
| debug | true | Debug | no | no |
| debug | true | Enable debug symbols and other information | no | no |
| default_library {shared, static, both} | shared | Default library type | no | yes |
| errorlogs | true | Whether to print the logs from failing tests. | no | no |
| install_umask {preserve, 0000-0777} | 022 | Default umask to apply on permissions of installed files | no | no |

@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ BUILTIN_CORE_OPTIONS: 'MutableKeyedOptionDictType' = OrderedDict([
(OptionKey('backend'), BuiltinOption(UserComboOption, 'Backend to use', 'ninja', choices=backendlist)),
(OptionKey('buildtype'), BuiltinOption(UserComboOption, 'Build type to use', 'debug',
choices=['plain', 'debug', 'debugoptimized', 'release', 'minsize', 'custom'])),
(OptionKey('debug'), BuiltinOption(UserBooleanOption, 'Debug', True)),
(OptionKey('debug'), BuiltinOption(UserBooleanOption, 'Enable debug symbols and other information', True)),
(OptionKey('default_library'), BuiltinOption(UserComboOption, 'Default library type', 'shared', choices=['shared', 'static', 'both'],
yielding=False)),
(OptionKey('errorlogs'), BuiltinOption(UserBooleanOption, "Whether to print the logs from failing tests", True)),

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