[CMake] How can I add -gstabs to the compile item for Debug?

[Bill Hoffman]

Tyler Roscoe wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:33:45AM +0800, Kermit Mei wrote:
>> c++ -Wall -gstabs(or -g)  main.cpp hello.cpp -o main
>>
>> How can I use cmake to do the same thing?
> 
> Add your -g flag to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS or I think you can use
> ADD_DEFINITIONS("-g").
> 

It would be better to edit the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG cache variable.

add_definitions(-g) is bad for a several reasons...

It will break for compilers that do not accept -g, it will add -g to 
release and optimized builds.

-Bill