I've checked mine and it's not compiling in what I'd call a debug mode. However, default optimizations are being used (I checked my aolserver/Makefile and aolserver/tcl8.3.2/Makefile) rather than (say) -O2 which is how PG is compiled, at least on most systems.
Hmmm...I don't have time at the moment to play with this, I wonder if Michael does? :) Compile with -O2 and see what happens?
