Hi, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, David O'Brien <obr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 07:48:23PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> My recollection is that this is because kensmith forgot to take >> 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' out of GENERIC when branching stable/8, and no one >> noticed until a couple of releases in, at which point it seemed consistent >> with POLA to just keep it there. Unfortunately I am not having much luck >> digging through mail archives trying to confirm that. >> I don't remember whether the plan was to turn it off on stable/9 or not. > > When I split out the symbols from the kernel, the intention was to always > build with -g so users would have the symbols to help debug reported > problems. > > If one was running a stock release kernel, they are not needed as we know > where to find them -- the intention was to have a kernel-symbols tarball > that was an option install. > > I pretty strongly feel that -g should not be removed from stable/9's > kernel configs. Otherwise we're more in the dark when folks report > problems from tracking -STABLE. > I agree on everything.
I already sent the patch to install .symbols files in a separate directory. I'm waiting for its inclusion before looking at the logic to create separate package. - Arnaud _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"