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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:58:48 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk
Message-ID:  <20050911215848.GB96773@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4324A665.3070405@root.org>
References:  <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <20050911023622.GA51877@dragon.NUXI.org> <4324A665.3070405@root.org>

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:49:25PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> >
> >>David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >>
> >>>obrien      2005-09-11 00:22:21 UTC
> >>>
> >>>FreeBSD src repository
> >>>
> >>>Modified files:
> >>>  sys/conf             kern.post.mk=20
> >>>Log:
> >>>For HEAD, install a kernel with debug information if DEBUG is a kernel
> >>>config option.  It is too easy to loose the build directory and not ha=
ve
> >>>symbols for kgdb to read.
> >>>
> >>>Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>1.84      +4 -17     src/sys/conf/kern.post.mk
> >>
> >>I disagree with this change.  We do not need to waste the space in /.=
=20
> >>If I'm running a debug kernel, it is based on the latest version of=20
> >>kernel.debug in my kernel compile dir and I know to find it there.
> >
> >
> >We do need this.  The panic I posted yesterday happened in the 'make'
> >stage of the below sequence:
> >
> >    cd /sys/<arch>/conf
> >    config FOO
> >    cd ../compile/FOO
> >    make clean
> >    make
> >
> >Note that the kernel.debug matching the running kernel was blown away at
> >this point.
> >
> >I was going to just install kernel.sym instead of a kernel with symbols,
> >but kgdb's usage doesn't claim to support '-s' as the previous kgdb did.
> >
>=20
> kernel.sym would be better since it wouldn't have the duplication that=20
> kernel and kernel.debug have.  Alternately, we can make loader(8) skip=20
> symbol sections when booting and just install kernel.debug

It does skip symbol sections.

Kris

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