Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:41:21 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <20090703144121.GC11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> References: <20090703142528.GA11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com>
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Hello, On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > You can find this in /usr/src/UPDATING: > > 20060118: > This actually occured some time ago, but installing the kernel > now also installs a bunch of symbol files for the kernel modules. > This increases the size of /boot/kernel to about 67Mbytes. You > will need twice this if you will eventually back this up to kernel.old > on your next install. > If you have a shortage of room in your root partition, you should add > -DINSTALL_NODEBUG to your make arguments or add INSTALL_NODEBUG="yes" > to your /etc/make.conf. Thanks a lot. I've been searching the handbook and Google for at least one hour. > However, you should consider increasing the size of your root > partition, if possible. It can be extremely handy to have symbol files > available whenever there's a crash. :) But I thought, they were in the kernel itself? %file /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped "not stripped" - i.e. "with debug symbols". Wrong? Since when? Thanks, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285
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