[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.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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