[Buildroot] On strip and debugging symbols

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> Therefore, I'd propose to add two options (which would replace the
 Thomas> existing ENABLE_DEBUG knob) :

 Thomas>  * ENABLE_DEBUG_IN_STAGING, which is enabled by default, and has the
 Thomas>    effect of building all packages with '-g', and installing them
 Thomas>    unstripped in $(STAGING_DIR). All *packages* would be installed in
 Thomas>    STAGING, be there libraries or end-user applications, so we could
 Thomas>    get rid of the <pkg>_INSTALL_STAGING and <pkg>_INSTALL_TARGET knobs.
 Thomas>    Having the debugging symbols in $(STAGING_DIR) allows to use remote
 Thomas>    debugging correctly.

As mentioned before, the problem with this is that people have
historically expected that they can just export
PATH=path/to/staging/usr/bin:$PATH and use the cross compiler outside
buildroot. If you start installing target binaries into staging/usr/bin
then this would break horrible.

(Yes, I know people should atleast append it to the path (export
PATH=$PATH:path/to/staging/usr/bin), but people will forget and it used
to work.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard