On 16-09-30 14:12, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > Hello. > > I'm building Linux kernel like this: > > ``` > cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./.config > make olddefconfig > make -j4 deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-custom > ``` > > Resulting files are (for 4.7.0 kernel): > > ``` > 966694 linux-firmware-image-4.7.0-custom_4.7.0-custom-1_amd64.deb > 10316460 linux-headers-4.7.0-custom_4.7.0-custom-1_amd64.deb > 45639036 linux-image-4.7.0-custom_4.7.0-custom-1_amd64.deb > 471400164 linux-image-4.7.0-custom-dbg_4.7.0-custom-1_amd64.deb > 851664 linux-libc-dev_4.7.0-custom-1_amd64.deb > ``` > > Compilation takes about an hour and most of this time is spent on > creating a -dbg package which I don't install anyway. Frankly I don't > think this package is very useful since Linux kernel can't be built > with -O0 option [1]. > > Is it possible to disable building of this package? >
Hi Aleksander, disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and -dbg package will not be built. But this package can be very useful, if you are going to debug kernel code. SystemTap, crash, makedumpfile need debug symbols. -- Best regards, Andrey Skvortsov
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