Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:40:31 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <20050911174031.GC77440@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050911105821.GA91588@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <20050911105821.GA91588@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:58:22PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > >David E. O'Brien wrote: > >> 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 have > >> symbols for kgdb to read. > > > >I disagree with this change. We do not need to waste the space in /. > >If I'm running a debug kernel, it is based on the latest version of > >kernel.debug in my kernel compile dir and I know to find it there. > > I'd agree with Nate here. I agree that the debug kernel is worth > keeping but it's not needed in /. If you want to install it, how > about installing it in /var/crash. How do I go about doing that? Copy kernel.debug to /var/crash? That allows only a single kernel to be debugable. There is no unque filename I can think of that gives us what putting the symbols beside the kernel does. If it helps get better bug reports from users in -CURRENT (the in-development version), isn't it worth a little disk space. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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