Commit a9a34676 authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options 



The help text for the choice of different stripping levels is removed,
since it is not displayed by menuconfig. Instead, only the per-option
help text is visible, so this text is improved.

[Peter: slightly reworked text]
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent c56b58b4

Config.in

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@@ -206,8 +206,12 @@ config BR2_DEPRECATED 
config BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG

	bool "build packages with debugging symbols"

	help

	  Build packages with debugging symbols

	  enabled

	  Build packages with debugging symbols enabled. All libraries

	  and binaries in the 'staging' directory will have debugging

	  symbols, which allows remote debugging even if libraries and

	  binaries are stripped on the target. Whether libraries and

	  binaries are stripped on the target is controlled by the

	  BR2_STRIP_* options below.



if BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG

choice
@@ -240,32 +244,36 @@ endchoice 
endif



choice

	prompt "strip"

	prompt "strip command for binaries on target"

	default BR2_STRIP_strip

	help

	  Select whether to strip binaries and libraries for the target

	  or not.

	  strip   is the normal strip command

	  sstrip  is a strip that discards more than the normal strip

	  none    do not strip (only for debugging!)



config BR2_STRIP_strip

	bool "strip"

	depends on !BR2_ELF2FLT

	help

	  strip   is the normal strip command

	  Binaries and libraries in the target filesystem will be

	  stripped using the normal 'strip' command. This allows to

	  save space, mainly by removing debugging symbols. Debugging

	  symbols on the target are needed for native debugging, but

	  not when remote debugging is used.



config BR2_STRIP_sstrip

	bool "sstrip"

	select BR2_PACKAGE_SSTRIP_HOST

	depends on !BR2_ELF2FLT

	help

	  sstrip  is a strip that discards more than the normal strip

	  Binaries and libraries in the target filesystem will be

	  stripped using the 'sstrip' command, which strips a little

	  bit more than the traditional 'strip' command. This allows to

	  save space, mainly by removing debugging symbols. Debugging

	  symbols on the target are needed for native debugging, but

	  not when remote debugging is used.



config BR2_STRIP_none

	bool "none"

	help

	  none    do not strip (only for debugging!)

	  Do not strip binaries and libraries in the target

	  filesystem.

endchoice



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