Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:37:39 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is my new kernel so big? Message-ID: <38B774B3.905470E5@gorean.org> References: <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200002251624.LAA18500@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <897eu4$pr3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> 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.
Would that be /sys/compile/HOST/kernel.debug maybe? :)
Doug
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