On 7 Jun, Glen Barber wrote: > 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).
I'm not concerned so much about the size of the release medium as I am about how much space this will take on my /usr partition. I still remember having to resize the root partitions on all my machines when the kernel symbols were added. My head machine also has a small drive with everything under / and space is very tight once all the ports are installed. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
