From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 7 23:39:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F337BA; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 23:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from onyx.glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [199.48.134.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB7D1A3E; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 23:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from glenbarber.us (kaos.glenbarber.us [71.224.221.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: gjb) by onyx.glenbarber.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AD8023F848; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:39:01 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.3 onyx.glenbarber.us 7AD8023F848 Authentication-Results: onyx.glenbarber.us; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:59 -0400 From: Glen Barber To: Don Lewis 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: <20130607233859.GE1578@glenbarber.us> References: <201306072140.r57Le2Ct069230@svn.freebsd.org> <201306072335.r57NZN9H087680@gw.catspoiler.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C94crkcyjafcjHxo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201306072335.r57NZN9H087680@gw.catspoiler.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, emaste@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:39:02 -0000 --C94crkcyjafcjHxo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > 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 > >=20 > > 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. > > =20 > > The debug files are now named ${prog}.debug and ${shlib}.debug for > > consistency with other systems and documentation. In addition they a= re > > 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. >=20 > 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 ... >=20 I don't think compression will gain us much here. The difference of release medium size with WITH_DEBUG_FILES set versus without is ~2GB compared to ~750MB. On the release medium, the debug files are compressed with the base system with xz(1). Glen --C94crkcyjafcjHxo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRsm8TAAoJEFJPDDeguUajr3YH/2GshRzKolYS5ARF/PJiUVBH cHwc93+TGGSML3jtcRIrBMoZk04UvpU9wxAUh84jhA5pbnVQiOBomCk5LQqguCpN h5c4x8Qy3Lp2jukqsbsZ7QRTFo9dMAr41gIpL5FN37du7hK9zs9Wxd3Md+VW6w25 fpm8NGRKlqVreWDmXfIf/NTRC2rnLigwXdYXqTpodP2NcE50MyxK0bKMGnqj7Vhf Ugz5pthYFjllJ3AI+RXa0IHOq1TF4EJptnuyPwy7CpWx3U4fU48EnaQZCX7XrbUs l8J2RNg8p3H5KMLj/IF+eIwnevAaP1GGS92j1qB+qoekfHinzz2XXIAHt/VBg+c= =L2H1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C94crkcyjafcjHxo--