diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index a680ec665..f06b5b336 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ else:  #Mac OS X
 	env.Append(LIBPATH = ['/opt/local/lib'])
     else:
         env.Append(CPPPATH = ['/usr/include', '/usr/include/include', '/usr/include/libxml2/'])
-
-env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -O3')
+if GetOption('buildconfiguration') == 'debug':
+	env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -g3')
+else:
+	env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -O3')
 #print "Compiling with: ", env['CXX']
 conf = Configure(env)
 if not conf.CheckCXX():
diff --git a/extractNetwork.cpp b/extractNetwork.cpp
index 7d26f64bd..e6eb8509f 100644
--- a/extractNetwork.cpp
+++ b/extractNetwork.cpp
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
             name.append(".osrm");
         }
 
-
         ofstream fout;
         fout.open(name.c_str());