From 739058fc54a7bb11a4e6cb76439cb0ff639ec54e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Opdenacker Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 20:21:51 +0200 Subject: dev-manual: further gdb usage simplifications (From yocto-docs rev: 701d9af89c0de25b84f110ed9f4b627ea339195b) Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst index c9fc585a05..1da19b8d65 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst @@ -10312,24 +10312,20 @@ debug on the target hardware. To support this kind of debugging, you need do the following: -- Ensure that GDB is on the target. You can do this by adding "gdb" to - :term:`IMAGE_INSTALL`:: +- Ensure that GDB is on the target. You can do this by making + the following addition to your ``local.conf`` file:: - IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " gdb" - - Alternatively, you can add "tools-debug" to :term:`IMAGE_FEATURES`:: - - IMAGE_FEATURES:append = " tools-debug" + EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES:append = " tools-debug" -- Ensure that debug symbols are present. You can make sure these - symbols are present by installing ``-dbg``:: +- Ensure that debug symbols are present. You can do so by adding the + corresponding ``-dbg`` package to :term:`IMAGE_INSTALL`:: - IMAGE_INSTALL:append = "packagename-dbg" + IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " packagename-dbg" - Alternatively, you can do the following to include + Alternatively, you can add the following to ``local.conf`` to include all the debug symbols:: - IMAGE_FEATURES:append = " dbg-pkgs" + EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES:append = " dbg-pkgs" .. note:: -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf