From 9fb74bc581a6f3fe9c801060a77fa7730e3b446d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:50:59 +0000
Subject: Add comments about statically linking libnetpbm

git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/trunk@4378 9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8
---
 GNUmakefile | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'GNUmakefile')

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 7389c16a..2c172da6 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@
 #   The default target is either "merge" or "nonmerge", as determined by
 #   the DEFAULT_TARGET variable set by config.mk.
 
+# Debugging techniques:
+#
+#   To build so you can easily debug with a debugger such as Gdb:
+#
+#     make CFLAGS="-g -O0"
+#
+#   To debug libnetpbm, link it statically into the using program:
+#
+#     make NETPBMLIBTYPE=unixstatic pamcut
+#
+#     (Then 'ldd ./pamcut' to make sure it worked)
+#
 # About the "merge" target: Normally the Makefiles build separate
 # executables for each program.  However, on some systems (especially
 # those without shared libraries) this can mean a lot of space.  In
-- 
cgit 1.4.1