From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 28 8: 4:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from detlev.UUCP (31-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BE01521A; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA02464; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:03:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Jesse , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Followups-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debug kernel by default? (was: Taking panic dumps (was: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects (resolved))) References: <19990327174738.B425@lemis.com> <19990328114410.U53452@lemis.com> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 28 Mar 1999 10:03:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:44:10 +0930" Message-ID: <86677l38kv.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Followups set to -hackers, this isn't -net material. > In that connection, any comments about changing the default way of > building a kernel to create a debug kernel and a stripped copy, and > install the stripped copy? It would require about 10 MB more storage > and a little more time to build the kernel, but since kgdb is useless > without the debug symbols, and disk space is cheap, it seems to me > that it would be worthwhile. I would personally lean a little closer to either making it configurable. This could be a flag in make.conf, or the new behaviour of config -g, or (least desirable) even an option in the kernel config file. Still, somehow or another, make it disablable; that's easy enough to do. Cheers, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message