How to generate Debug symbols with Makefile for C? [Linux]

Question

I\'m trying to use GDB and KDEvelop to debug a console app under Knoppix VM. KDevelop and GDB don\'t break at my breakpoints. I suspect it\'s because they don\'t have debug symb

Answer 1

Include -g in the flags sent to the compiler and linker. The default variables for this are CFLAGS and LDFLAGS respectively.

The second step: exclude -s from flags (-s means strip)