From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 08:56:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 59F2F16A41F; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:56:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sironside@interfone.net) Received: from epistula.interfone.net (host-84-9-255-18.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.255.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCEC43D6D; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:56:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sironside@interfone.net) Received: from [10.69.4.56] ([10.69.4.56]) by epistula.interfone.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAE99bGs066116; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:09:38 GMT (envelope-from sironside@interfone.net) Message-ID: <43785072.5030508@interfone.net> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:53:06 +0000 From: Simon Ironside User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: delphij@delphij.net References: <436BCD90.40709@interfone.net> <43784DC6.4000809@interfone.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:56:09 -0000 Hello, > I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a > kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful > if you get a kernel panic and want to report it back. On the other > hand, debugging symbols would be stripped before you install a new > kernel so it does not affect the running kernel. This has changed since 5.4 - I just wondered why and whether I would be best leaving it as is or commenting it out. Simon