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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-08-15 08:57:46 +0300 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-09-22 13:04:42 +0100 |
| commit | c2e5449f96d13720e5c36efb069b70e75f9fd20a (patch) | |
| tree | 2a61d2617790deb0f2dc660aa4822a8194cc9369 | |
| parent | d0dda27ffcbcb61a88ee8065c729931921f4086a (diff) | |
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dev-manual: Review edits for GDB without source
Fixes [YOCTO #6621]
Applied a few review edits for this fix.
(From yocto-docs rev: 99511bbcfa1de2f7bf691da1a002913f3a7f6034)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 3250092..604c484 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -8250,7 +8250,7 @@ Gateways via their Web Interfaces</ulink>"</emphasis> </para> <tip> - For best results, install DBG (<filename>-dbg</filename>) packages + For best results, install debug (<filename>-dbg</filename>) packages for the applications you are going to debug. Doing so makes extra debug symbols available that give you more meaningful output. @@ -8280,6 +8280,15 @@ Gateways via their Web Interfaces</ulink>"</emphasis> as all the heavy debugging is done by the host GDB. Offloading these processes gives the Gdbserver running on the target a chance to remain small and fast. + <note> + By default, source files are part of the + <filename>*-dbg</filename> packages in order to enable GDB + to show source lines in its output. + You can save further space on the target by setting the + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE'><filename>PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE</filename></ulink> + variable to "debug-without-src" so that these packages do not + include the source files. + </note> </para> <para> @@ -8995,7 +9004,8 @@ Gateways via their Web Interfaces</ulink>"</emphasis> takes place. You can gain access to the symbols by using "dbg-pkgs" in the <filename>IMAGE_FEATURES</filename> variable or by - installing the appropriate DBG (<filename>-dbg</filename>) packages. + installing the appropriate debug (<filename>-dbg</filename>) + packages. </para> <para> |
