From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 21:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6824E37BC5C for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id GAA25390 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 06:31:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA26480 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:48:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Why is my new kernel so big? Date: 26 Feb 2000 03:48:36 +0100 Message-ID: <897eu4$pr3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <200002251624.LAA18500@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > # /usr/sbin/config -g FREEBIE > > Mike, take a look at the paragraphs following that line. They explain > why Greg thinks you should use -g. If you want to save that space, > leave out the -g. Notice that "make install" will install a stripped kernel, i.e. one without all the debugging symbols added by "-g". If you ever need to debug it, the symbols can be fetched from /sys/compile/HOST/kernel. In short, there's no size penalty for the installed kernel if you configure it with "-g". I do this for all my kernels I build. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message