diff --git a/bip.1 b/bip.1
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index 0000000..75ff74f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bip.1
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+.TH BIP 1 "6 July 2005"
+
+.SH NAME
+
+bip \- BIP IRC Proxy
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBbip\fP [ \fB-f\fP \fIconfig_file\fP ] [ \fB-n\fP ] [ \fB-h\fP ] 
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+
+BIP is an IRC Proxy
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+
+.TP
+\fB-n\fP
+Don't daemonize. Log into stderr.
+
+.TP
+\fB-f\fP config_file
+Use config_file as the configuration file. 
+If no config file is given, bip will try to open ~/.bip/bip.conf.
+
+.TP
+\fB-h\fP
+Help.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+
+bip.conf
+
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+
+Arnaud 'nohar' Cornet
+Loïc 'Kyoshiro' Gomez
+
+Thanks to jj, YS and lafouine, for hanging around while we were coding.
+
+Crypto shamelessly taken from Christophe 'sexy' Devine.
+
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4ba345a..581bef4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2910,7 +2910,7 @@ fi
 fi
 
 
-CFLAGS="-O2 -g -W -Wall"
+CFLAGS="-O2 -W -Wall"
 
 debug=false
 # Check whether --enable-debug or --disable-debug was given.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9ae4a4c..94f16cb 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_YACC
 AM_PROG_LEX
 
-CFLAGS="-O2 -g -W -Wall"
+CFLAGS="-O2 -W -Wall"
 
 debug=false
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(debug,