config: improve help text and prompt for debugging related options

The help text for the choice of different stripping levels is removed,
since it is not displayed by menuconfig. Instead, only the per-option
help text is visible, so this text is improved.

[Peter: slightly reworked text]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index e07e52f174806a3fb87fe1dc8fd307c434a80685..68abb9b3c4d62f0735f9e67eb91d1465b75c9c91 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -206,8 +206,12 @@ config BR2_DEPRECATED
 config BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
        bool "build packages with debugging symbols"
        help
-         Build packages with debugging symbols
-         enabled
+         Build packages with debugging symbols enabled. All libraries
+         and binaries in the 'staging' directory will have debugging
+         symbols, which allows remote debugging even if libraries and
+         binaries are stripped on the target. Whether libraries and
+         binaries are stripped on the target is controlled by the
+         BR2_STRIP_* options below.
 
 if BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG
 choice
@@ -240,32 +244,36 @@ endchoice
 endif
 
 choice
-       prompt "strip"
+       prompt "strip command for binaries on target"
        default BR2_STRIP_strip
-       help
-         Select whether to strip binaries and libraries for the target
-         or not.
-         strip   is the normal strip command
-         sstrip  is a strip that discards more than the normal strip
-         none    do not strip (only for debugging!)
 
 config BR2_STRIP_strip
        bool "strip"
        depends on !BR2_ELF2FLT
        help
-         strip   is the normal strip command
+         Binaries and libraries in the target filesystem will be
+         stripped using the normal 'strip' command. This allows to
+         save space, mainly by removing debugging symbols. Debugging
+         symbols on the target are needed for native debugging, but
+         not when remote debugging is used.
 
 config BR2_STRIP_sstrip
        bool "sstrip"
        select BR2_PACKAGE_SSTRIP_HOST
        depends on !BR2_ELF2FLT
        help
-         sstrip  is a strip that discards more than the normal strip
+         Binaries and libraries in the target filesystem will be
+         stripped using the 'sstrip' command, which strips a little
+         bit more than the traditional 'strip' command. This allows to
+         save space, mainly by removing debugging symbols. Debugging
+         symbols on the target are needed for native debugging, but
+         not when remote debugging is used.
 
 config BR2_STRIP_none
        bool "none"
        help
-         none    do not strip (only for debugging!)
+         Do not strip binaries and libraries in the target
+         filesystem.
 endchoice
 
 choice