Sometimes it is useful to build tools with debugging information included so
that line-number information is available when run under gdb. Add a Kconfig
option to support this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
---
Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
Makefile | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index 3ceff25..c06be59 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ if EXPERT
Warning:
When disabling this, please check if malloc calls, maybe
should be replaced by calloc - if one expects zeroed memory.
+
+config TOOLS_DEBUG
+ bool "Enable debug information for tools"
+ help
+ Enable generation of debug information for tools such as mkimage.
+ This can be used for debugging purposes. With debug information
+ it is possible to set breakpoints on particular lines, single-step
+ debug through the source code, etc.
+
endif
endmenu # General setup
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0c47bb6..e8e2bb2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH" ]; then echo
$$BASH; \
HOSTCC = cc
HOSTCXX = c++
-HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
+HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer \
+ $(if $(CONFIG_TOOLS_DEBUG),-g)
HOSTCXXFLAGS = -O2
ifeq ($(HOSTOS),cygwin)
--
2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
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