From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 20 12: 4: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (zola.noos.net [212.198.2.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE5137B418 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1341633 invoked by uid 0); 20 Nov 2001 20:03:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cdlpc) ([212.198.229.145]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.76 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2001 20:03:56 -0000 Message-ID: <006d01c171fe$713030a0$91e5c6d4@cybercable.fr> Reply-To: "Cyrille Lefevre" From: "Cyrille Lefevre" To: "Arjan de Vet" , "Ian Dowse" Cc: "Warner Losh" , , "Garance A Drosihn" , References: <200111200556.fAK5ue780788@harmony.village.org> <200111201514.aa72952@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20011120164205.A12679@adv.devet.org> Subject: Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:03:35 +0100 Organization: ACME MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Arjan de Vet" wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > >I probably missed something important earlier in this thread, but > >installing the debug versions of the modules seems like a bug, > >since we don't install the debug version of the kernel. Adding > >"DEBUG=-g" has always simply required more space in /usr/src, but > >not affected the installed size. Does installing the debug versions > >of modules make sense at all, or is it just hard to fix the makefiles > >to stop it happening? > > Interesting observation. If 'make installkernel KERNCONF=name' does not > install a debug version of the kernel it should not install debug > versions of the modules as well. right. > However, it would be very useful to have something like a 'make > installkerneldebug' target which does install the debug versions of both > kernel and modules (I now install the debug kernel manually). I'm not sure that is possible to directly boot on a kernel.debug due to the memory space needed by the symbol table and that is the reason why only the stripped kernel *must* be installed. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message