Created attachment 5804 [details] Fix the reported bug at least partially. Hi, When configured with --enable-debug, the DHCP server built from the dhcp package has some important features disabled. Most notably, it cannot go background, change its UID and GID, nor create PID files (see server/dhcpd.c from the package's sources)... ... and setting BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG does add a --enable-debug option to all target packages that use the Autotools, including the dhcp package (code is in package/Makefile.in:387 and package/pkg-autotools.mk:205). However, the help for BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG states that this option should only impact debugging symbols. Therefore, disabling dhcp features when BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG is on is a bit harsh. I am not sure what a proper fix for this would be. *Maybe* a solution is not to give --enable-debug to dhcp when BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG, but the Autotools infrastructure does not allow this. Attached is a patch I use for the dhcp package that keeps the aforementioned features even when one configures the package with --enable-debug. But I only looked quickly at dhcpd's source code, and --enable-debug might disable other features I am not aware of (and possibly in other programs, e.g., the DHCP client). Cheers, Thomas
Interesting, thanks for the report. We have seen several cases of --enable-debug causing problems, and indeed the help text of BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG only mentions that it's causing the packages to be built with debugging symbols. So, I would personally suggest that we simply do not pass --enable-debug when BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG is set, and make BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG only enable debugging symbols.
We are no longer passing --enable-debug to all packages when BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG=y since commit http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/package/Makefile.in?id=0552a367dbdc27a211daaac3359d81dd537e384f. Therefore, this bug is fixed.