Add section on how to build debug build

BUILDING.md

@@ -253,6 +253,43 @@ To install this version of Node.js into a system directory:
 $ [sudo] make install
 ```
 
+#### Building a debug build
+
+If you run into an issue where the information provided by the JS stack trace
+is not enough, or if you suspect the error happens outside of the JS VM, you
+can try to build a debug enabled binary:
+
+```console
+$ ./configure --debug
+$ make -j4
+```
+
+`make` with `./configure --debug` generates two binaries, the regular release
+one in `out/Release/node` and a debug binary in `out/Debug/node`, only the
+ release version is actually installed when you run `make install`. 
+
+To use the debug build with all the normal dependencies overwrite the release
+ version in the install directory:
+
+``` console
+$ make install --prefix=/opt/node-debug/
+$ cp -a -f out/Debug/node /opt/node-debug/node
+```
+
+When using the debug binary, core dumps will be generated in case of crashes.
+These core dumps are useful for debugging when provided with the 
+corresponding original debug binary and system information.
+
+Reading the core dump requires a gdb that was build on the same platform as the
+core dump was captured, so 64bit gdb if node was build as 64bit and Linux gdb if node
+was built on Linux else you might get errors like "not in executable format: File format not recognized".
+
+Example of generating a backtrace from the core dump:
+
+``` console
+gdb /opt/node-debug/node core.node.8.1535359906
+backtrace
+```
 
 ### Windows