On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > So... IMHO, if we can fix this as well, it would be worth it for all
> > the people who get core dumps but didn't build debug kernels.
> > Do you disagree?
>
> I disagree that this should even be necessary. This kind of detail
> was exactly the reason why I put the short-lived default debug kernel
> into config. There aren't too many systems any more that don't have
> an additional 30 MB for the time it takes to build the kernel, and it
> solves a whole lot of potential problems.
It does cause problems when you keep the kernels for 8 different machines
in one /usr/src. I've never had any problems with -g generating different
code as long as the stuff in vers.c doesn't change length. Being able to
reproduce a kernel with debugging symbols seems like a reasonable aim to
me.
David.
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