Re: Building kernel with DEBUG

2008-02-02 Thread Oliver Peter
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Gerard wrote: Near the top of the /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC file, is the line: makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols Is this line really necessary? If I don't intend to ever debug a kernel, why should I leave it? It

Building kernel with DEBUG

2008-02-01 Thread Gerard
Near the top of the /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC file, is the line: makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols Is this line really necessary? If I don't intend to ever debug a kernel, why should I leave it? It would seem like I could save some time compiling a kernel if I