[Buildroot] Debug symbols in staging, but stripped on target?

[Buildroot] Debug symbols in staging, but stripped on target?

[Grant Edwards]

I need to do some debugging of a package's application, so I need
debugging symbols enabled for that package.

The only option I can find that appears related is

  BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG

There are a couple issues with that:

 1) It enables debug symbols for all packages, and I only want them
    for one.

 2) It apprently disables stripping of target executables.  I don't
    have room (nor any use) for debugging symbols on the target -- I
    only need them on the development host (e.g. in the staging
    directory).

It also appears to force BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_SERVER.  What if I'm using an
external toolchain that provides my gdb server?

Is there any way to enable debugging symbols for just one package?

Can the target binaries still be stripped?

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[Buildroot] Debug symbols in staging, but stripped on target?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-08-31, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to do some debugging of a package's application, so I need
> debugging symbols enabled for that package.
>
> The only option I can find that appears related is
>
>   BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
>
> There are a couple issues with that:
>
>  1) It enables debug symbols for all packages, and I only want them
>     for one.
>
>  2) It apprently disables stripping of target executables.  I don't
>     have room (nor any use) for debugging symbols on the target -- I
>     only need them on the development host (e.g. in the staging
>     directory).

My current work-around is to get rid of the BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
dependancy in the BR2_STRIP_xxxxx choices.

That way I can enable BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG and still have stripped
binaries on the target.

[I don't really understand why the two were connected like that, they
seem to me to be orthogonal choices.]

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