[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] Enhancements to allow core file debugging to work properly from devices

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 01:54 -0500, blloyd wrote:
> gdb includes a script to make generating core files trivial.  Add a package to allow inclusion of this script in images.  GDB also requires symbols that are usually stripped from the threads library to properly generate a core dump.  Therefore, ensure when gdb is installed the necessary debug file is also present so gdb is fully functional.
> 
> Signed-off-by: blloyd <blloyd at familyhonor.net>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc | 12 +++++++-----
>  meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb.inc        |  9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> index 6954954..02eef85 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
> @@ -61,8 +61,10 @@ do_install_append() {
>  	rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/locale
>  }
>  
> -RRECOMMENDS_gdb_append_linux = " glibc-thread-db "
> -RRECOMMENDS_gdb_append_linux-gnueabi = " glibc-thread-db "
> -RRECOMMENDS_gdbserver_append_linux = " glibc-thread-db "
> -RRECOMMENDS_gdbserver_append_linux-gnueabi = " glibc-thread-db "
> -
> +# Unfortunately, for gdb multi-threading to function reliably it must have the eglibc debug symbols
> +# which are a part of the eglibc-dev package.  So we have added a dependency on that here.
> +RRECOMMENDS_gdb_append_linux = " glibc-thread-db eglibc-dev "
> +RRECOMMENDS_gdb_append_linux-gnueabi = " glibc-thread-db eglibc-dev "
> +RRECOMMENDS_gdbserver_append_linux = " glibc-thread-db eglibc-dev "
> +RRECOMMENDS_gdbserver_append_linux-gnueabi = " glibc-thread-db eglibc-dev "
> +RDEPENDS_gcore_append = " gdb "

Aren't they part of the -dbg package, not -dev?

You also need to put "gdb: " at the start of the commit message summary
as per the commit message guidelines. It may be worth splitting this
change into two commits too.

Cheers,

Richard