Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 06/08/2010, at 16:59, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what
> > > it will break :)
> > >
> > > The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so
> > > it tells gdb where to find the symbols.
> >
> > That's why I suggested to place symlinks in the kernel
> > directory. No change to kgdb necessary.
>
> Ahh of course.
>
> Although that does make it harder because you have to modify all the
> links when the old kernel is moved out of the way.
Right. Maybe make a symlink to a directory, so only that
symlink has to be changed:
/boot/kernel/symbols -> /var/db/symbols/kernel
/boot/kernel/kernel.symbols -> symbols/kernel.symbols
/boot/kernel/acpi.symbols -> symbols/acpi.symbols
.. and so on.
When the kernel is rotated to kernel.old, only one symlink
has to be changed:
/boot/kernel.old/symbols -> /var/db/symbols/kernel.old
Of course, /var/db is just an example off the top of my head.
The symbols directory should be configurable via make.conf, too.
> > It might even be possible to not install the symbol files
> > at all, but keep them under /usr/obj, so the installkernel
> > target would have to do nothing more than create symlinks.
> > This could be controlled by a make.conf variable, like
> > SYMLINK_SYMBOLS=YES ("NO" would be the existing behaviour
> > of installing the actual symbol files in /boot/kernel).
>
> Hmm, I think they would need to go elsewhere otherwise they wouldn't
> be available to people who do binary installs, hence the usefulness
> of bug reports would go down.
Right, I was thinking of developers only, who usually have a
populated /usr/obj directory ... But there's a world full of
non-developers, too. :-)
Best regards
Oliver
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