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+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_sh64 && !BR2_microblaze
+
+comment "full gdb on target needs a toolchain w/ wchar"
+ depends on !BR2_sh && !BR2_sh64 && !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