From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 13:15:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04CD37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC10C43F3F for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h19LGirX000996; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:16:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:12:44 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniela Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatically include debug symbols? References: <200302091847.39504.dgw@liwest.at> <15942.39589.709632.258724@guru.mired.org> <200302092116.33639.dgw@liwest.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 19:15, Mike Meyer wrote: > >>You can get everything to build with debug symbols by adding >>"CFLAGS=-g" to /etc/make.conf. However, the system will strip the >>binaries when it installs them. You could probably get the >>non-stripped version installed if you really wanted to, but I'd >>recommend not doing that, and just using the version in /usr/obj, >>which shouldn't be stripped, for debugging. > > Why shouldn't I do this? Is it just because debug binaries are bigger or run > slower? If so, that's not a problem for me, I have a fast processor and a lot > of memory. I guess if you don't mind them eating up RAM, then go ahead. Keep in mind that it can easily be 5x the amount of RAM a stripped binary uses. >>Segmentation faults are pretty rare on all my systems, unless it's >>code that is under active development. Are you sure it's not flaky >>hardware? Note that not having problems under another OS is *not* a >>sign that the hardware isn't flaky. > > I have always suspected the hardware because on my old computer, everything > worked. But how do I see what the problem really is? Look at memtest and cpuburn in the ports, they should help you isolate the problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message