[boost] Re: Why do we build debug variants of our compiled libraries?

Doug Gregor wrote:

Just the defaults. When the user types "bjam" I don't see why they should get debug versions (except with MSVC; thanks John!). If they want debug versions, they can of course use -sBUILD=debug to get them.

Runtime linkage and debugging information are two different things and may be set sepeartely (I'm pretty sure John knows this - but some other readers may not. "Debug version" is ambiguous for Windows).