comment "gdb/gdbserver needs a toolchain w/ threads, threads debug" depends on !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_bfin depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB bool "gdb" # When the external toolchain gdbserver is copied to the # target, we don't allow building a separate gdbserver. The # one from the external toolchain should be used. select BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_SERVER if \ (!BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_DEBUGGER && !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY) depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS && BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_DEBUG depends on !BR2_nios2 && !BR2_bfin help GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. This option allows to build gdbserver and/or the gdb debugger for the target. For embedded development, the most common solution is to build only 'gdbserver' for the target, and use a cross-gdb on the host. See BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_GDB in the Toolchain menu to enable one. Notice that external toolchains often provide their own pre-built cross-gdb and gdbserver binaries. http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ if BR2_PACKAGE_GDB config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_SERVER bool "gdbserver" depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GDB_SERVER_COPY help Build the gdbserver stub to run on the target. A full gdb is needed to debug the progam. config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_DEBUGGER bool "full debugger" select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR depends on !BR2_sh && !BR2_microblaze comment "full gdb on target needs a toolchain w/ wchar" depends on !BR2_sh && !BR2_microblaze depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR if BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_DEBUGGER config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_TUI bool "TUI support" help This option enables terminal user interface (TUI) for gdb "The GDB Text User Interface (TUI) is a terminal interface which uses the curses library to show the source file, the assembly output, the program registers and GDB commands in separate text windows." https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html config BR2_PACKAGE_GDB_PYTHON bool "Python support" # Only Python 2.x is supported by gdb for now depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON help This option enables Python support in the target gdb. endif endif