Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] gdb: add PACKAGECONFIG for xz (lzma) compression support

Khem Raj
2020-11-12T19:12:10Z

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:40 PM Dan Callaghan via
lists.openembedded.org
<dan.callaghan=opengear.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>
> Bump... I just noticed this patch was never applied. I have been
> carrying it locally all year and it still applies cleanly. Any issues
> preventing it from being applied?
>

thanks, I think this patch is fine.

> Excerpts from Dan Callaghan's message of 2020-01-21 11:24:12 +10:00:
> > Similar to elfutils, when xz support is built into gdb it will be able
> > to read xz-compressed ELF sections containing debuginfo. This is used by
> > the "mini debuginfo" format:
> > https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/MiniDebugInfo.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@opengear.com>
> > ---
> > meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> > index 08f615addf..878a03715c 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ EXPAT = "--with-expat --with-libexpat-prefix=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}"
> >
> > EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-gdbtk --disable-x --disable-werror \
> > --with-curses --disable-multilib --disable-sim \
> > - --without-lzma --without-guile \
> > + --without-guile \
> > ${GDBPROPREFIX} ${EXPAT} \
> > ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'multiarch', '--enable-64-bit-bfd', '', d)} \
> > --disable-rpath \
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "--with-python=${WORKDIR}/python,--without-python,python
> > PACKAGECONFIG[babeltrace] = "--with-babeltrace,--without-babeltrace,babeltrace"
> > # ncurses is already a hard DEPENDS, but would be added here if it weren't
> > PACKAGECONFIG[tui] = "--enable-tui,--disable-tui"
> > +PACKAGECONFIG[xz] = "--with-lzma,--without-lzma,xz"
> >
> > GDBPROPREFIX = "--program-prefix=''"
> >
>
> --
> Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@digi.com>
> Software Engineer
> Opengear <https://opengear.com/>
>
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