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From: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: Albert Antony <albert@newtec.dk>
Cc: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] Enable "strip" install option handling for libraries
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:34:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201507211634.42290.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHChq8OWNj1E2YDKraTh6HwtGn9r+LEmvFjwN2+U-0UOGNfccg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Albert,

On Tuesday 21 July 2015 16:03:36 Albert Antony wrote:
> On 21 July 2015 at 15:14, Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Why do you want to have libraries *with* debug information in your root
> > filesystem?
>
> It just facilitates easier debugging in our case. We can run gdb on
> the target directly, instead of via gdbserver.
>
> Given that this may apply to other users as well, would it not be a
> good idea to let the user have the choice of installing certain select
> unstripped binaries in the rootfs if they so desire? Of course the
> default option would still be to install stripped binaries. Let me
> know what you think.

As an alternative to change PTXdist's behaviour you could mount the content 
of "platform-<yourplatform>/root-debug" instead and have all debug information 
available on the target.

Regards,
Juergen

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21 12:04 Albert Antony
2015-07-21 13:14 ` Juergen Borleis
2015-07-21 14:03   ` Albert Antony
2015-07-21 14:34     ` Juergen Borleis [this message]
2015-07-22  8:31       ` Albert Antony
2015-07-22  9:29         ` Juergen Borleis
2015-07-22 13:28           ` Albert Antony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-21 10:09 Albert Antony
2015-07-21 10:26 ` Michael Olbrich

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