Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:25:13 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is my new kernel so big? Message-ID: <20000226202512.B327@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <898tee$1g3e$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:02:22PM %2B0100 References: <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200002251624.LAA18500@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <897eu4$pr3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000226125745.A326@marder-1> <898tee$1g3e$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:02:22PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > > Notice that "make install" will install a stripped kernel, i.e.
> > > one without all the debugging symbols added by "-g". If you ever
> >
> > Err, are you sure?
>
> Yes.
>
> > This is a debug kernel, installed by ``make install''
> >
> > # ls -l /kernel
> > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8303201 Feb 24 19:46 /kernel
> > # file /kernel
> > /kernel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
> > dynamically linked, not stripped
> > marder-1#
>
> I guess the kernel isn't stripped of all symbols, only the debugging
> ones, see this snippet from the Makefile:
>
> ${KERNEL}: ${FULLKERNEL}
> objcopy --strip-debug ${FULLKERNEL} ${KERNEL}
> .endif
>
> naddy@bigeye[~] ll /kernel /sys/compile/BIGEYE/kernel*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1986324 Feb 7 01:57 /kernel
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1986324 Feb 7 01:57 /sys/compile/BIGEYE/kernel
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7471207 Feb 7 01:56 /sys/compile/BIGEYE/kernel.debug
>
> This is simply the result of
>
> # config -g -r BIGEYE
> # cd /sys/compile/BIGEYE
> # make depend && make -j2
> # make install
>
Someone else pointed out that this is version-dependent behaviour. Is
your system 4.x? I'm running 3.4-STABLE
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
>
>
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