[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Mar 15 22:16:16 UTC 2012
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Thomas> The help text for the choice of different stripping levels is removed,
Thomas> since it is not displayed by menuconfig. Instead, only the per-option
Thomas> help text is visible, so this text is improved.
Committed with minor tweaks, thanks:
Thomas> config BR2_STRIP_strip
Thomas> bool "strip"
Thomas> depends on !BR2_ELF2FLT
Thomas> help
Thomas> - strip is the normal strip command
Thomas> + Binaries and libraries in the target filesystem will be
Thomas> + stripped using the normal 'strip' command. This allows to
Thomas> + save space, mainly by removing debugging symbols. Debugging
Thomas> + symbols on the target are unneeded on the target when remote
Thomas> + debugging is used.
I don't like the double target and the fact that we don't explain when
you would want debug symbols on the target, so I changed the last
sentence to be:
Debugging symbols on the target are needed for native debugging, but
not when remote debugging is used.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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