svn commit: r251512 - in head: . etc etc/mtree gnu/usr.bin/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/amd64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/arm gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/i386 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/ia64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/mips gnu/...
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 7 23:59:18 UTC 2013
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:50:58PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 7 Jun, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> >> On 7 Jun, Ed Maste wrote:
> >> > Author: emaste
> >> > Date: Fri Jun 7 21:40:02 2013
> >> > New Revision: 251512
> >> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251512
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> > Add a new knob WITH_DEBUG_FILES to control the building of standalone
> >> > debug files for userland programs and libraries. The "-g" debug flag
> >> > is automatically applied when WITH_DEBUG_FILES is set.
> >> >
> >> > The debug files are now named ${prog}.debug and ${shlib}.debug for
> >> > consistency with other systems and documentation. In addition they are
> >> > installed under /usr/lib/debug, to simplify the process of installing
> >> > them if needed after a crash. Users of bsd.{prog,lib}.mk outside of the
> >> > base system place the standalone debug files in a .debug subdirectory.
> >> > GDB automatically searches both of these directories for standalone
> >> > debug files.
> >>
> >> Can the debug files be compressed so they don't take up as much room? It
> >> looks like gdb supports compressed symbol files. The same would be nice
> >> for /boot/kernel/*.symbols, btw ...
> >>
> >
> > I don't think compression will gain us much here. The difference of
> > release medium size with WITH_DEBUG_FILES set versus without is ~2GB
> > compared to ~750MB. On the release medium, the debug files are
> > compressed with the base system with xz(1).
>
> I'm not concerned so much about the size of the release medium as I am
> about how much space this will take on my /usr partition. I still
> remember having to resize the root partitions on all my machines when
> the kernel symbols were added. My head machine also has a small drive
> with everything under / and space is very tight once all the ports are
> installed.
>
Understood. I was just pointing out the significant size difference
overall.
Glen
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