Date: 28 Mar 1999 10:03:28 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Jesse <j@lumiere.net>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Debug kernel by default? (was: Taking panic dumps (was: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects (resolved))) Message-ID: <86677l38kv.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:44:10 %2B0930" References: <19990327174738.B425@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903272117230.14631-100000@freja.webgiro.com> <19990328114410.U53452@lemis.com>
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Followups set to -hackers, this isn't -net material. > In that connection, any comments about changing the default way of > building a kernel to create a debug kernel and a stripped copy, and > install the stripped copy? It would require about 10 MB more storage > and a little more time to build the kernel, but since kgdb is useless > without the debug symbols, and disk space is cheap, it seems to me > that it would be worthwhile. I would personally lean a little closer to either making it configurable. This could be a flag in make.conf, or the new behaviour of config -g, or (least desirable) even an option in the kernel config file. Still, somehow or another, make it disablable; that's easy enough to do. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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