[Buildroot] [RFC; PATCH] Use gdbserver from external toolchain

[Lionel Landwerlin]

Le jeudi 22 octobre 2009 à 11:47 +0200, Anders Darander a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've attached a patch (formatted by git), which adds the possibility
> to have buildroot install the already compiled gdbserver from an
> external toolchain.
> 
> To  make sure that debuging works, it is preferred if both the host
> crosscompiler gdb and gdbserver is built from the same gdb version. If
> we take the gdbserver from the external toolchain, this is guaranteed.
> 
> I'm not sure that the implementation is the best, it migth be  a
> little bit "hackish". Looking forward to some comments for
> improvement.
> 
> Regards,
> Anders

Hi Anders,

Interesting patch ;)

Maybe you could add

	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL

to your BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDBSERVER option.

Regards,

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Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin at gmail.com>