Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:47:20 -0600
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>

    Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
    > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:13:35PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
    >
    >>Why is this discussion ongoing? The consensus seems pretty clear: "Implement
    >>it, but have a make.conf option to turn it off." If there is concern with
    >>this make if default to off and have an option to turn it on.
    >>
    >
    > Implementing this is very easy, since it's already implemented,
    > just not by default.
    >
    > What everyone seem to have forgotten is that we also have modules,
    > and in the "config -g" case, we also build debug versions of the
    > modules. And if we're also going to install modules with debug
    > symbols, I think this puts the requirement for the root file
    > system way beyond the rational limits.
    >
    >
    > Cheers,

    I tend to agree. What do you think of my proposal to have installkernel
    (optionally or whatever) put unstriped binaries somewhere outside of the
    root partition?

    Scott
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