From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 30 1:16:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4A514D32 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:16:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA75305; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:21:02 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:21:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Julian Elischer , "Viren R.Shah" , Greg Lehey , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repeatable crash in -current (softupdates, NFS) In-Reply-To: <199911292242.OAA12007@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :> > :> makeoptions DEBUG="-g" > :> > :Easier option.. > :config -g > > Actually no. How many people remember to type options after 'config' ? > Especially if you are juggling more then one kernel config, trying to > remember which ones you intend to compile -g and which ones you don't > generally results in forgetting to type -g half the time even on the ones > you want it on. > > If it is in the kernel config, you don't have to remember anything, you > simply 'config FILENAME' and you are done. For my development kernels, I normally just build everything for debugging. Its simpler that way. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message