[OE-core] Debugging with gdb

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> midori crashes with segmentation fault since a while (0.4.3 & 0.4.4).
> To understand why I would like to start a gdb remote debug session. In
> the past I prepared the image in the following way to get as much
> libraries as possible compiled with -O0 since I do not know which
> component might be responsible:
>
> 1. clean all tmp dirs
> 2. build all recipes where -O0 is not wanted
> (u-boot/kernel/gdb/gdb-cross) or not possible (eglibc/lttng-ust)
> 3. added in local.conf: 'SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION = "${DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION} -O0'
> 4. build image
>
> This sequence does not work anymore since the change in local.conf
> causes most (all?) recipes to rebuild which crashes at least at
> eglibc.
>
> I am running a bit out of ideas to get this done. The only solution I
> see is a minimum optimization passed in the recipe together with 3.
> and build from scratch.
>
> Comments / better ideas?

[1] should bring back old behavior - thanks

Andreas

[1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-devel/2012-March/005842.html