Kernel symbol file alternate location

[Adrian Chadd]

On 5 August 2010 12:41, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere?
>
> IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), eg..
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel
> 258M    kernel
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel
>  50M    kernel

Why not add support to the relevant libraries/code to support reading
compressed symbol files?



Adrian