In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When the kernel is built as kernel.debug, why is it passed through
> objcopy --strip-debug before being installed, instead of being passed
> through strip?
If you strip all of the symbols from the kernel then nothing that uses
libkvm will work.
> Background: I recently found that the Handbook instructions for
> "Debugging Loadable Modules Using GDB" is mostly useless for post-mortem
> crash dump analysis, because buildkernel doesn't build modules with
> debugging support, even when CONFIGARGS=-g.
>
> The attached patch (for the i386 only) fixes this so that, if kernel.debug
> is built, foo.ko.debug etc. are built. For each foo.ko.debug, we
> produce foo.ko with objcopy --strip-debug and install foo.ko.
>
> What I'm unsure of is why it's worth going to all this trouble.
>
> Why not simply build all the modules with debugging support compiled in
> (assuming debugging support was requested for the kernel), and strip
> them at install time (install -s)?
I don't understand what this has to do with how the kernel is
stripped.
John
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