Re: Getting full debug symbol table?

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 19 May 2014, Martin Husemann wrote:
> But the issue is more complex:

This should all be documented in src/BUILDING (generated from
src/doc/BUILDING.mdoc), but it is not.  Some of it should also be
documented in share/mk/bsd.README.

> 1) makeoptions DEBUG="-g"  in config files still works, if you build your
>    kernel manually. However, it is disabled in "build.sh release" (and
>    friends).
>
> 2) you can build a netbsd.gdb for arbitrary kernels w/o touching the config
>    file by "build.sh kernel.gdb=conf"
>
> 3) you can force all your local builds to generate netbsd.gdb kernels
>    (overriding the "build.sh release" part of (1) above) by adding
>    MKKDEBUG=yes to /etc/mk.conf
>
> 4) you can force setting of DEBUG=-g in the generated makefile (without
>    touching the config file) by running: config -D DEBUG="-g" myconf
>
> We should probably put this somewhere on the wiki, everybody please feel free
> to properly document it. Same place should document MKDEBUG=yes and
> MKDEBUGLIB=yes for userland.

I see the wiki as extra documentation, possibly more like a 
tutorial or how-to than a reference.  The reference documentation 
should be in-tree.

--apb (Alan Barrett)