On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > On 7 Jun, Ed Maste wrote: > > Author: emaste > > Date: Fri Jun 7 21:40:02 2013 > > New Revision: 251512 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251512 > > > > Log: > > Add a new knob WITH_DEBUG_FILES to control the building of standalone > > debug files for userland programs and libraries. The "-g" debug flag > > is automatically applied when WITH_DEBUG_FILES is set. > > > > The debug files are now named ${prog}.debug and ${shlib}.debug for > > consistency with other systems and documentation. In addition they are > > installed under /usr/lib/debug, to simplify the process of installing > > them if needed after a crash. Users of bsd.{prog,lib}.mk outside of the > > base system place the standalone debug files in a .debug subdirectory. > > GDB automatically searches both of these directories for standalone > > debug files. > > Can the debug files be compressed so they don't take up as much room? It > looks like gdb supports compressed symbol files. The same would be nice > for /boot/kernel/*.symbols, btw ... >
I don't think compression will gain us much here. The difference of release medium size with WITH_DEBUG_FILES set versus without is ~2GB compared to ~750MB. On the release medium, the debug files are compressed with the base system with xz(1). Glen
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