[Mono-list] Building mono in release mode

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> We were wondering if when building mono does it build alll the base case
> library dll's in release mode. THere was a question about this given if
> there is an exception , in the stack trace we see full line numbers in the
> base class libraries which you would only see if its built in debug mode. 
> 
> Does anyone have more clarifications on how this works.

In Mono we do not build the class libraries in Release/Debug mode.
There is only one mode, and we always bundle debugging information with
them.

The line number information comes from the .mdb files that reside
side-by-side with your assemblies.