[PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

[Colin D Bennett]

I following the GRUB 2 gdb debugging instructions this week and I was
successful in using QEMU and gdb to debug GRUB.  I wondered if we could
make this a bit easier -- primarily by making GRUB's build system
generate the '.elf' files with full symbol info without requiring a
patch.  Attached is a patch against GRUB 2 trunk (this is the one
from the GRUB 2 debugging guide, just fixed to apply on the latest
GRUB sources).

We could make it a 'configure' option like '--enable-debug' or
something, but it seems like minimal overhead to generate the .elf
files for gdb in addition to "real" GRUB files.

Let me know what you all think.  Thanks!

Regards,
Colin

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