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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:16:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k42lqzm7.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39e3959f0f78242130e6b57da2b93da4f7cb1564.1331765391.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:49:58 +0100")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@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

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 22:49 [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch for-2011.11/debugging-improvements Thomas Petazzoni
2012-03-14 22:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] debug: do not force installation of gdbserver Thomas Petazzoni
2012-03-14 22:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] debug: provide an option to copy the gdbserver to the target Thomas Petazzoni
2012-03-15 22:05   ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-04-29 21:13     ` Daniel Nilsson
2012-06-06 10:16   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2012-06-06 19:36     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-06-07 13:49       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2012-03-14 22:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options Thomas Petazzoni
2012-03-15 22:16   ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]

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