Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:40:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Andrew L. Neporada" <andr@dgap.mipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compiling world with -g Message-ID: <20020720224024.GA25101@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020720205733.GA47261@nas.dgap.mipt.ru> References: <20020720180857.GA21316@nas.dgap.mipt.ru> <20020720200104.GA24601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020720205733.GA47261@nas.dgap.mipt.ru>
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:57:33AM +0400, Andrew L. Neporada wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:01:04PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > '-g' adds some extra symbols to the object files, but apart from being
> > bigger they should otherwise be just about identical to binaries
> > compiled without '-g'. However, unless you override the setting of
> > the STRIP make variable all your work will be in vain, as the debug
> > symbols will be stripped out when you do the installworld. Unlikely
> > to cause problems, even with all the debug symbols.
> Oh, I forgot about stripping... But where can I get info about STRIP
> variable? I can't find it neither in /etc/defaults/make.conf nor in
> /usr/src/Makefile*
There's some documentation in
/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.README
but mainly try reading the makefiles in that directory.
Cheers
Matthew
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