From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 11:43:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8108F1502D for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 11:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10ejtU-000Ma3-00; Tue, 4 May 1999 19:26:12 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:26:12 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: youlgok@ibm.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: config with -g option? Message-ID: <19990504192612.B86754@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <372ECA15.D4D81087@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <372ECA15.D4D81087@ibm.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG youlgok@ibm.net wrote: > What is the difference between > > # /usr/sbin/config FREEBIE > and > # /usr/sbin/config -g FREEBIE -g produces a system for debugging, like the manual page says. In other words, the kernel you build after a config -g has debugging symbols in it, for debugging the system (e.g. if it crashes). There's a section on kernel debugging in the handbook, I beleive. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message