[Buildroot] [PATCH] store debug information in $HOST_DIR/lib/debug
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Feb 4 18:19:54 UTC 2019
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:05:26 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> The difference that this patch brings is that now also binaries can be
> debugged based from the target directory, i.e. you don't need to find
> the binary in output/build/foo-version/somewhere/.
>
> Today, the staging directory only contains packages that explicitly
> set FOO_INSTALL_STAGING = YES, which is typically only done for
> libraries.
Yes, but:
1) Typically the binary being debugged has to be passed explicitly as
gdb argument, it's not automatically "inferred" by gdb. So having it
in output/build/foo-<version>/somewhere/ or elsewhere doesn't make a
huge difference.
2) If for convenience reasons we want to make all binaries with
debugging symbols easily available, then the long term solution we
have been discussing for a while is to install all packages to
STAGING_DIR. So basically I'm more for extending STAGING_DIR to
contain binaries rather than to create a partial copy of STAGING_DIR
in HOST_DIR/lib/debug.
Thomas
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