Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:00:02 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 Message-ID: <CACqU3MWcDYKpUAEWQ64-msQrBz2CwoCfOS9JL81Qo-x4GEu8Ug@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111006014628.GB19960@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <201109260053.SAA25795@lariat.net> <201109260927.02540.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109261359100.882@multics.mit.edu> <201109262035.OAA17199@lariat.net> <CACqU3MUZ_ez-KMGVR33Aqz31i9cE%2BW7ANtvhqy3D%2BiPfroFpxA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109261941050.882@multics.mit.edu> <20111006014628.GB19960@dragon.NUXI.org>
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Hi, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:48:23PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> My recollection is that this is because kensmith forgot to take >> 'makeoptions DEBUG=3D-g' out of GENERIC when branching stable/8, and no = one >> noticed until a couple of releases in, at which point it seemed consiste= nt >> with POLA to just keep it there. =A0Unfortunately I am not having much l= uck >> digging through mail archives trying to confirm that. >> I don't remember whether the plan was to turn it off on stable/9 or not. > > When I split out the symbols from the kernel, the intention was to always > build with -g so users would have the symbols to help debug reported > problems. > > If one was running a stock release kernel, they are not needed as we know > where to find them -- the intention was to have a kernel-symbols tarball > that was an option install. > > I pretty strongly feel that -g should not be removed from stable/9's > kernel configs. =A0Otherwise we're more in the dark when folks report > problems from tracking -STABLE. > I agree on everything. I already sent the patch to install .symbols files in a separate directory. I'm waiting for its inclusion before looking at the logic to create separate package. - Arnaud
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