[meta-freescale] How to build/include debug-infos for certain packages?

[Bob Cochran]

On 01/28/2015 04:36 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using the QorIQ SDK-1.7 on e6500 based hardware we've recently started
> to use oprofile for performance analysis.
> However libraries shipped as part of the SDK are opaque to oprofile,
> because the debug-infos are missing.
>
> Is there any way to include debug-infos of certain packages (such as
> libc and libgcc) in the image - or even better - install it later?

You can add -dbg and -dev packages to your image.

Something like:

IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " libgcc-dev"

You could also install it manually on the target without adding it to 
your image if you set up the smart package manager.

>
> Thank you in advanve, Clemens
>
>