Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Simon Ironside
Hi, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g Cheers, Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Xin LI
Hi, Simon, On 11/14/05, Simon Ironside [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Simon Ironside
Hello, I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful if you get a kernel panic and want to report it back. On the other hand, debugging symbols would be stripped before you install a new kernel so it

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Xin LI
On 11/14/05, Simon Ironside [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This has changed since 5.4 - I just wondered why and whether I would be best leaving it as is or commenting it out. My personal suggestion would be that you keep it as-is, since it saves your time when you have kernel panics and wants

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Dev Tugnait
safe to leave un-commented no hindrance in performance. On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:53 +, Simon Ironside wrote: Hello, I think this is intentional. Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful if you get a kernel panic and

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g [Slightly OT]

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Simon Ironside wrote: /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g This was by accident, but actually isn't a bad idea. We discovered the problem at

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g

2005-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Simon Ironside wrote: /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g This was by accident, but actually isn't a bad idea. We discovered the problem at the last minute, after