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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Wednesday,  7 April 1999 at 15:35:15 +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Greg Black wrote:
> >
> >>>> And on the subject of debugging kernels getting built, I'd tend to
> >>>> agree.  Don't install them though, install the stripped version.
> >>>
> >>> I had planned to leave that to the user: 'make install' will install a
> >>> stripped kernel, 'make install.debug' will install the full symbol
> >>> kernel.  I still think this is a reasonable compromise.
> >>
> >> Agreed.
> >
> > Will that include a stripping of the previous kernel?
> >
> > if -x /kernel
> > 	strip -g /kernel
> > 	mv /kernel
> >
> > This is required or otherwise make the root partition bigger by
> > default.  2x10Mb for the kernel does not leave a lot of room for
> > etc.  Patch for this is available if wanted. Just bounce me a
> > message.
> 
> Well, that's not quite the way I'm doing it.  By default, I make a
> kernel called kernel.debug and use the following rule to create a
> stripped kernel:
> 
> ${KERNEL}:  ${KERNEL}.debug
> 	objcopy --strip-debug ${KERNEL}.debug ${KERNEL}

So I presume you've made an aout kernel?
(we still use aout kernels on 3.1 but I haven't tried in 4.0 for a while
now)

> 
> The 'install' target installs the stripped kernel, and depends on this
> rule.
> 
> Greg
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