Hi Cyril, We already do have 'EXTRA_CFLAGS' and 'EXTRA_LDFLAGS' that you can use to enable debug, or any other compiler/linker options you need. Wonder, why that is not enough? Thanks Konstantin
-----Original Message----- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Cyril Chemparathy Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 6:31 PM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: add support for gdb debug info generation It is often useful to build with debug enabled, we add a config (CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_DEBUG) to do so. Note: This patch does not include corresponding changes for ICC. The author pleads abject ignorance in this regard, and welcomes recommendations. :-) Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cchemparathy at tilera.com> --- config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc | 1 + mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc b/config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc index f11ffbf..3b36efd 100644 --- a/config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc +++ b/config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_X86_64=y # CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN="gcc" CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC=y +CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_DEBUG=n # # Use intrinsics or assembly code for key routines diff --git a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk index 0edb93f..81ed3fa 100644 --- a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk +++ b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ ifeq (,$(findstring -O0,$(EXTRA_CFLAGS))) endif endif +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_DEBUG),y) +TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS += -g -ggdb +TOOLCHAIN_LDFLAGS += -g -ggdb +endif + WERROR_FLAGS := -W -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes WERROR_FLAGS += -Wmissing-declarations -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith WERROR_FLAGS += -Wcast-align -Wnested-externs -Wcast-qual -- 1.8.3.1
