Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:14:04 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045246502.d60a79@mired.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Automatically include debug symbols? Message-ID: <20030210061404.GZ47877@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20030210000214.GF60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200302091847.39504.dgw@liwest.at> <15942.39589.709632.258724@guru.mired.org> <200302092116.33639.dgw@liwest.at> <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com> <20030209233139.GB60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3E46E757.5060108@potentialtech.com> <20030210000214.GF60203@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:14AM +1030 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: > On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > It's just a disk space issue then? Because ... if it doesn't eat up > > RAM, I have a hard time thinking why I shouldn't have all my > > binaries with debug symbols all of the time. > > I've been pushing for this, at least for the kernel build, for some > time. It can make a big difference in the size of the directories, > though. I've thought seriously several times about looking at making all my buildworld'd binaries with debug symbols. I expect it'd eat a massive chunk of drive space though. The kernel undergoes a rather notable size increase: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4242610 Jan 18 06:38 /boot/kernel/kernel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17684134 Jan 18 06:40 /boot/kernel/kernel.debug* -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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