Re: [PATCH 01/17] conf/bitbake.conf package.bbclass: fix dbg package not contain sources while -fdebug-prefix-map used

[Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>]

On 04/18/2016 05:52 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 04/18/2016 05:15 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>> So remote debugging is no more available for standard settings. I am
>>> tempted to send a revert: Installing -dbg causes bloated images and
>>> debugging on machine is slow and last resort only.
>>
>> I think we support remote debugging better since -fdebug-prefix-map used,
>> It is easy to construct sources paths.
>>
>> Yours remote debug was limited to original build environment.
>>
>> //Hongxu
>>
>>> Andreas
> OK I checked the documentation for this. You say setting sysroot is
> broken now. How exactly is your suggested option for *remote*
> debugging? And please note: Installing -dbg packages is not an option:
In your case for remote debug with build environment,

My suggestions is:

Plan1:

If sysroot is not required, just install extract *-dpb to /usr/src/ in host

Plang2:

If sysroot is required, override DEBUG_FLAGS to remove -fdebug-prefix-map

//Hongxu


> * It explodes image's size
> * problems are caused by having only one -dbg per recipe: due to
> dependencies conflicting packages are installed causing build to break
> * it is terribly slow: All source code is transferred by network
> during debugging
> * a quick starting up of debugger is impossible - a new image has to be created.
>
> Andreas