diff --git a/lib/Makefile.Watcom b/lib/Makefile.Watcom
index 965da47b5b82cdb19c13b312cd349bf1e697c1d7..cb7b8e96917c4e713e719313e9ac0e68f28653dd 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.Watcom
+++ b/lib/Makefile.Watcom
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ CC = wcc386
 CFLAGS = -3s -mf -d3 -hc -zff -zgf -zq -zm -zc -s -fr=con -w2 -fpi -oilrtfm -bt=nt &
          -bd -d+ -dWIN32 -dCURL_CA_BUNDLE=getenv("CURL_CA_BUNDLE")                 &
          -dBUILDING_LIBCURL -dHAVE_SPNEGO=1 -dENABLE_IPV6                          &
-         -dDEBUG=1 -dCURLDEBUG -d_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -dWINBERAPI=__declspec(cdecl) &
+         -dDEBUG=1 -dDEBUGBUILD -d_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -dWINBERAPI=__declspec(cdecl) &
          -dWINLDAPAPI=__declspec(cdecl) -I. -I..\include
 
 #
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ vclean realclean: clean .SYMBOLIC
 
 .ERASE
 $(RESOURCE): libcurl.rc
-        wrc -dCURLDEBUG=1 -q -r -zm -I..\include -fo=$@ libcurl.rc
+        wrc -dDEBUGBUILD=1 -q -r -zm -I..\include -fo=$@ libcurl.rc
 
 .ERASE
 .c{$(OBJ_BASE)\dyn}.obj:
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.m32 b/lib/Makefile.m32
index 897dc35b9490a2aeb1759b02543b4b6ff2bc829d..b882735a0a672842315683007bb14ee386e22c9b 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.m32
+++ b/lib/Makefile.m32
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ AR = ar
 LDFLAGS = -s
 RANLIB = ranlib
 RC = windres
-RCFLAGS = --include-dir=../include -DCURLDEBUG=0 -O COFF -i
+RCFLAGS = --include-dir=../include -DDEBUGBUILD=0 -O COFF -i
 RM = del /q /f > NUL 2>&1
 STRIP = strip -g
 
diff --git a/lib/cookie.c b/lib/cookie.c
index 32ea705e484f082cedfc62568365d31370f01f28..16b2fdd72e971149f27b8f66f1d449b6862f443a 100644
--- a/lib/cookie.c
+++ b/lib/cookie.c
@@ -99,9 +99,7 @@ Example set of cookies:
 #include "rawstr.h"
 
 /* The last #include file should be: */
-#ifdef CURLDEBUG
 #include "memdebug.h"
-#endif
 
 
 static void freecookie(struct Cookie *co)
diff --git a/lib/libcurl.rc b/lib/libcurl.rc
index 161a45df78fd53ac5b9ba99ce84d414ecc0a04aa..433deb995dd606e178a672a7041d54b446bf8d72 100644
--- a/lib/libcurl.rc
+++ b/lib/libcurl.rc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
   FILEVERSION     RC_VERSION
   PRODUCTVERSION  RC_VERSION
   FILEFLAGSMASK   0x3fL
-#if defined(CURLDEBUG) || defined(_DEBUG)
+#if defined(DEBUGBUILD) || defined(_DEBUG)
   FILEFLAGS 1
 #else
   FILEFLAGS 0
diff --git a/src/Makefile.Watcom b/src/Makefile.Watcom
index a8c66aff21fcb5dee33054b9d70618d3794ddd1c..1853bcc6bd5f3c697326ba939c53f052497d0fa7 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.Watcom
+++ b/src/Makefile.Watcom
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 CC = wcc386
 
 CFLAGS = -3r -mf -d3 -hc -zff -zgf -zq -zm -s -fr=con -w2 -fpi -oilrtfm &
-         -bt=nt -d+ -dWIN32 -dHAVE_STRTOLL -dCURLDEBUG -dENABLE_IPV6    &
+         -bt=nt -d+ -dWIN32 -dHAVE_STRTOLL -dDEBUGBUILD -dENABLE_IPV6    &
          -dHAVE_WINSOCK2_H -I..\include -I..\lib
 
 OBJ_DIR = WC_Win32.obj
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ vclean realclean: clean .SYMBOLIC
 	- rmdir $(OBJ_DIR)
 
 $(RESOURCE): curl.rc
-	wrc -dCURLDEBUG=1 -q -r -zm -I..\include -fo=$@ curl.rc
+	wrc -dDEBUGBUILD=1 -q -r -zm -I..\include -fo=$@ curl.rc
 
 .ERASE
 .c{$(OBJ_DIR)}.obj:
diff --git a/src/curl.rc b/src/curl.rc
index fd29f18367659abbc1e464a01ded9e316480ecbb..90c070c79853bf9c6c4337058dad878b36275336 100644
--- a/src/curl.rc
+++ b/src/curl.rc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
   FILEVERSION     RC_VERSION
   PRODUCTVERSION  RC_VERSION
   FILEFLAGSMASK   0x3fL
-#if defined(CURLDEBUG) || defined(_DEBUG)
+#if defined(DEBUGBUILD) || defined(_DEBUG)
   FILEFLAGS 1
 #else
   FILEFLAGS 0