[oe] [rfc] change default for BUILD_OPTIMIZATION, remove spurious assignments

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:24, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 20:55 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > I'd like to propose changing the bitbake.conf default for
> > BUILD_OPTIMIZATION from "-O2" to "-O2 -g".  There seems no harm in
> > building debuggable binaries for host-side utilities and it makes life
> > somewhat easier when things go wrong.
> > 
> > Also, while investigating why assignments to this variable from
> > local.conf didn't do what I was expecting, I discovered that a whole lot
> > of files inside conf/, notably all of the sane-toolchain-*.inc files,
> > contain their own assignments to BUILD_OPTIMIZATION for no good reason
> > that I can see.  I would also propose to delete the assignments from
> > those files.  (There are a few other assignments in files that are
> > either DISTRO or MACHINE specific but I intend to leave those alone.)
> 
> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Poky actually uses -ggdb now which makes the -dbg packages useful (if
> huge).

Perhaps go directly for -ggdb3? (There is always magic to learn if you hack some
time with zecke. :))

regards
Stefan Schmidt