ping! No comment on this topic? Am 23.02.2016 um 15:09 schrieb Pascal Bach: > Hi Everybody > > Currently debugging using sysroots seems to work as long as the work folder > containing the original source is available. > Once this work dir is gone the debugger is no longer able to find the source > code. This is especially confusing if some packages are taken from sstate and > others are built in the current projects, because for some libraries the > sources can be found and for others not. It is hard at first to figure out > the reason why one works and the other not. > > In order to make it easier to debug using sysroots I propose to modify the > how the sysroots is built to do somethins similar to rootfs: > > 1. Changing the source reference in the debug symbols to point to the source > under /usr/src/debug > 2. Copy the sources into /usr/src/debug under sysroots similar to how it is > done for a debug rootfs. > 3. Document that the user needs to add the following to the .gdbinit to make > it work: > ``` > set sysroot /project/oe/build/tmp/sysroots/<target_sysrtoot> > set substitute-path /usr/src/debug > /project/oe/build/tmp/sysroots/<target_sysrtoot>/usr/src/debug > ``` > > This would also allow the sysroot to be relocatable as it is kind of > standalone and everything required to debug is included. > > What do you think? Does this proposal make sense, or did I miss something and > this is completly unnecessary and there is an easier way already working? > > Regards > Pascal
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