Allow for debug flag to be passed to make

[colorize.git] / README

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@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ currently no make targets to install it as such.
 
 Finally, remove it through `make clean'.
 
+For the sake of completeness, colorize can be also built with
+debugging output by issuing `make FLAGS=-DDEBUG'.  The intention
+is to provide some memory allocation diagnostics (and might be
+extended in future).  Usually, a debugging build is not required.
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 See man page source file: colorize.1.