From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 8:19:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4010037B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 16:19:28 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:20:34 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: config -g vs. config Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was rebuilding my kernel the other day [4.2-Stable], and I did man config, looked at the "g" option, it says something along the lines of build kernel with debugging symbols [not at a FreeBSD box now], now shouldn't debugging symbols make the kernel bigger, not smaller? I followed the "Complete FreeBSD book" using the -g option, then though, that if I dont' put that in, the kernel should be smaller as it has no debugging info in it, what turned out is that the kernel was actually 6MB instead of the regular 1.5MB, did I misunderstand the "man config" about the "g" option or am I missing something? www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message