default to building a debug version

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d9a0563c61bd24934d33ac28de775e1b6a18ee99..851ed752513309a34a16674285a428725862eafd 100644 (file)
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ ENABLE_TESTING()
 # try to include our cmake modules
 SET (CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/makelib)
 
-# debug it!
-SET (CXX_FLAGS "-g")
+IF(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
+  SET (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug CACHE STRING
+      "Choose the type of build, options are: None Debug Release RelWithDebInfo MinSizeRel."
+      FORCE)
+ENDIF(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
 
 # all of our source files al relative to the root of our project
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})