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Date:      Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:00:58 -0800
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: config -g vs. config 
Message-ID:  <20010308000058.15D873E0C@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <SAK.2001.03.07.dnmbofhd@support10>; from fbsdq@yahoo.com on "Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:07:21 -0700"

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Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> writes:
> . . . .|I don't quite understand what you're asking.  The -g option will buil
> d
> . . . .|a kernel with debugging symbols.  Debugging symbols take space.  
> 6MB
> . . . .|for a debug kernel and 1.5MB for a non-debug sounds reasonable.
> . . . .|What's your question?
> 
> 	That's exactly my question when i do "config -g MYKERNEL" I get 
> a kernel that is 1.5MB, as I understand the "-g" option == build kernel 
> with debugging symbols.   If I do "config MYKERNEL", I get a kernel that 
> is 6MB, and as I understood "man config" the "-g" option == build kernel 
> with debugging symbols, why is it if i use -g my kernel is 1.5MB but if I 
> dont' use it it's 6MB, to me it seems that this is completely opposite of the
> "man config" tells me.

That's odd.  I can't reproduce this.  Perhaps someone else knows.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

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