From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:16:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options In-Reply-To: <39e3959f0f78242130e6b57da2b93da4f7cb1564.1331765391.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:49:58 +0100") References: <39e3959f0f78242130e6b57da2b93da4f7cb1564.1331765391.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87k42lqzm7.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni 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