Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:03:35 +0100 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@noos.fr> To: "Arjan de Vet" <devet@devet.org>, "Ian Dowse" <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: "Warner Losh" <imp@harmony.village.org>, <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Message-ID: <006d01c171fe$713030a0$91e5c6d4@cybercable.fr> References: <200111200556.fAK5ue780788@harmony.village.org> <200111201514.aa72952@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20011120164205.A12679@adv.devet.org>
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"Arjan de Vet" <devet@devet.org> wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > >I probably missed something important earlier in this thread, but > >installing the debug versions of the modules seems like a bug, > >since we don't install the debug version of the kernel. Adding > >"DEBUG=-g" has always simply required more space in /usr/src, but > >not affected the installed size. Does installing the debug versions > >of modules make sense at all, or is it just hard to fix the makefiles > >to stop it happening? > > Interesting observation. If 'make installkernel KERNCONF=name' does not > install a debug version of the kernel it should not install debug > versions of the modules as well. right. > However, it would be very useful to have something like a 'make > installkerneldebug' target which does install the debug versions of both > kernel and modules (I now install the debug kernel manually). I'm not sure that is possible to directly boot on a kernel.debug due to the memory space needed by the symbol table and that is the reason why only the stripped kernel *must* be installed. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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