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Subject: Re: building world with debugging symbols
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Bruce Cran schrieb am 2010-03-05:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 05:28:39 Alexander Best wrote:

> > any suggestions on how to successfully build world with debugging
> > symbols
> >  are welcome.

> Use DEBUG_FLAGS instead:

> DEBUG_FLAGS=-g

ahh. thanks for the hint. with DEBUG_FLAGS i was able to build world with
debugging symbols but also managed to keep the bootloader small enough.

i don't think this option is documented anywhere or is it?

> The build system knows not to strip the binaries when that's defined,
> too.