patches from Gentoo



Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 12/27/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>
>> We used to do likewise for Fedora builds, but it turned out to be
>> problematic.  See also:
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/214568
>>
>> So, while helping to avoid hangs in non-interactive builds, ends up with
>> maxima builds without exception handling.
>
> Rex, thanks for this info. I take back what I said before --
> I guess we should not have --disable-debugger for sbcl builds.
>
> Maybe someone can bring up this topic with the sbcl developers --
> how to prevent the debugger from being activated in the build,
> and yet have the debugger present in the compiled image.
>
I did ask that exact question on the sbcl-devel ml, and while receiving 
responses that it is indeed possible to do, never did see any 
implementation details on how exactly to do it.

-- Rex