Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.8 2/2] Config.mk: fix comment for debug option

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/11/16 16:56, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.8 2/2] Config.mk: fix comment for debug 
> option"):
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 05:09:46PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> -# A debug build of Xen and tools?
>>> +# A debug build of tools?
>> For this to hold true, a patch like this is needed:
>>
>> Please let me know what you think.
> ...
>> For hypervisor, the flags previously added by debug option is now
>> controlled by CONFIG_DEBUG.
> So there will no longer be one place where debug is enabled.  That's a
> shame.  It would need to come with an osstest patch...

It hasn't been the case for almost all of 4.8

Attempting to build Xen with an explicit debug= set yields "You must use
'make menuconfig' to enable/disable debug now."

I personally would prefer if debug= still worked, but apparently that is
prohibitively difficult to do.

~Andrew

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