re: port-amd64/50128: amd64 debug build lacks kernel debug symbols

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/50128; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: re: port-amd64/50128: amd64 debug build lacks kernel debug symbols
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:05:57 +1000

 Andreas Gustafsson writes:
 > matthew green wrote:
 > > feed gdb the netbsd.gdb in the kernel build dir.
 > 
 > What I'm trying to do is to build a release that contains everything
 > necessary to symbolically debug itself, including its own kernel (or
 > to remotely debug the kernel of an identical system).  Unless the
 > netbsd.gdb in the kernel build directory gets included in one of the
 > release sets and installed by sysinst, it doesn't help.
 
 yeah - that's a problem.  we don't want to have debug info in the
 actual kernel itself, so perhaps we should also have a way to have
 this file installed into /usr/libdata/debug/netbsd.debug, with a
 patch to the Makefile.kern.inc generate it in the obj dir, but i'm
 not sure how works for updating or sysinst choosing a kernel from
 a list..
 
 we could also just distribute the full netbsd.gdb for each build,
 and have the user manually deal with that, as a first step.
 
 
 .mrg.