From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 9:10:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1C737B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C639343E88 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe-dated-1035389534.144fdb@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 65235 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2002 16:12:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO fafner.dubium.com) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Oct 2002 16:12:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Best practice when building a -STABLE branch kernel Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:10:55 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210180910.55374.joe@dubium.com> From: joe X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it a best practice to include debuging options in a -STABLE tree kernel? I have read the following article which suggests that a business-as- usual practice should be to include debugging options. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 The kernel developer's handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html) does not offer an opinion Is there some alternative thinking? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Sotham ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites by keeping them both and keeping them furious. - G.K. Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message