Returns Debug Libraries, regardless of '--debug=no'.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. wxWidgets 2.9 built with GCC: Shared, Unicode, NOT Monolithic.
2. Set Env Vars accordingly.
3. calling wx-config --debug=no --unicode=yes --libs

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected Output (Example): -lwxmsw29u_html

Actual Output (Example): -lwxmsw29ud_html

(notice the 'd' after the msw29u.)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

wx-config: Revision 21 2006-10-19
OS: Windows 7
wxWidgets: 2.9

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by MRKing2...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 11:52

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It appears that wx-config disregards the "--debug" argument and prefers to use 
DEBUG_FLAG which is present in the build.cfg generated by wxWidgets' gcc 
makefile.

The DEBUG_FLAG is erroneously set to 1 even when a release build is performed, 
this has been reported upstream here:
http://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=31435

I'm going to chase that down and establish is it is known to the wxWidgets 
devs, and whether we can expect a fix.

With regards to the "--debug" argument:

It is parsed by checkAdditionalFlags:
http://code.google.com/p/wx-config-win/source/browse/trunk/wx-config-win.cpp#230
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But after this has been called:
http://code.google.com/p/wx-config-win/source/browse/trunk/wx-config-win.cpp#259
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Then we call detectCompiler:
http://code.google.com/p/wx-config-win/source/browse/trunk/wx-config-win.cpp#260
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This will detect the compiler as GCC:
http://code.google.com/p/wx-config-win/source/browse/trunk/wx-config-win.cpp#236
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And the parse DEBUG_FLAG from the GCC build.cfg:
http://code.google.com/p/wx-config-win/source/browse/trunk/wx-config-win.cpp#951

If this is correct (if someone could check), then I propose that either:
1. wx-config-win should emit an error when --debug is specified inconstantly; 
or,
2. The --debug argument shouldn't exist at all.

Original comment by duked...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2011 at 8:06

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This appears to be a problem with wx-config-win, as identified on the wxWidgets 
mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wx-dev/4PuKS-xQX3k/8-rOzSExpLwJ

Original comment by duked...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2012 at 4:23

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