From: Steven J. Hill <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Building debug version of kernel
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:48:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713174844.GA16025@real.realitydiluted.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c7c567$2bbcdf10$2c48a8c0@greyhawk.tonecommander.com>
> Is editing the top-level Linux Makefile the standard method for my host
> machine to build a debug version (i.e. with "-g -O0" CFLAGS) of the Linux
> 2.6 kernel? If so, should I make these flag changes to CFLAGS_KERNEL or
> HOSTCFLAGS or both?
>
There is a configuration option under 'Kernel hacking' in the Linux
configuration system to turn on debugging symbols. Was there some
reason this does not work?
> The build output only shows the format "CC <object-file-name>" without
> flags, so I can't see what it's actually doing.
>
If you add 'V=1' to your 'make vmlinux' target area in the makefile, you
can see the verbose output of the compiling, linking, etc.
-Steve
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2007-07-13 16:02 [Buildroot] Building debug version of kernel Jerry Richards
2007-07-13 17:48 ` Steven J. Hill [this message]
2007-07-16 16:36 ` Jerry Richards
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