From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 22:37:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B822337BB98 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21838; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38B774B3.905470E5@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:37:39 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is my new kernel so big? References: <200002251624.LAA18500@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> <897eu4$pr3$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > 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. Would that be /sys/compile/HOST/kernel.debug maybe? :) Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message