455347 - Don't define or use DEBUG_$(shell whoami)

Status: NEW

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

Description

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I suggest that NSPR's build system not define DEBUG_$(shell whoami)
(or its equivalent for platforms that don't have the 'whoami' command),
and we remove DEBUG_userid from the NSPR source tree.

The reason is that we need to process the user id if it contains
characters that are illegal in a macro name, such as spaces and
hyphens.  I never use DEBUG_wtc during development, and don't think
such conditionally compiled code should be checked in.

The NSPR source tree contains these DEBUG_userid macros:
DEBUG_warren
DEBUG_kipp
DEBUG_jwz
DEBUG_pedemonte

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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