Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:35:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: emaste@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r251512 - in head: . etc etc/mtree gnu/usr.bin/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/amd64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/arm gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/i386 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/ia64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/mips gnu/... Message-ID: <201306072335.r57NZN9H087680@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <201306072140.r57Le2Ct069230@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 7 Jun, Ed Maste wrote: > Author: emaste > Date: Fri Jun 7 21:40:02 2013 > New Revision: 251512 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251512 > > Log: > Add a new knob WITH_DEBUG_FILES to control the building of standalone > debug files for userland programs and libraries. The "-g" debug flag > is automatically applied when WITH_DEBUG_FILES is set. > > The debug files are now named ${prog}.debug and ${shlib}.debug for > consistency with other systems and documentation. In addition they are > installed under /usr/lib/debug, to simplify the process of installing > them if needed after a crash. Users of bsd.{prog,lib}.mk outside of the > base system place the standalone debug files in a .debug subdirectory. > GDB automatically searches both of these directories for standalone > debug files. Can the debug files be compressed so they don't take up as much room? It looks like gdb supports compressed symbol files. The same would be nice for /boot/kernel/*.symbols, btw ...
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