> Would it be possible to add a configure script option to
> disable the use of the '-g' (and '-g3') with GCC? I don't
> need the information there.
> Currently the only way to get rid of it is to manually (or
> with a script/sed) change all the Makefiles. This seems
> inelegant.

./configure CFLAGS="-g0"

should do the trick?