On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:50:58PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > 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. >
Understood. I was just pointing out the significant size difference overall. Glen
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