Re: CVS commit: [matt-nb5-mips64] src/sys/conf

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:01:51PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> matthew green wrote:
> 
> >    > I see no reason to make it fatal.
> >    
> >    Otherwise we cannot detect errors on release build,
> >    i.e. no ksym(4) supports.
> >    
> >    > It means that when I build a kernel  
> >    > with
> >    > DEBUG, my kernel build will fail.  That's stupid.
> >    
> >    Then disable it only if DEBUG, or keep it only in your local tree.
> > 
> > 
> > why can't we make it size for DEBUG builds and not fail anywhere?
> 
> The proper fix would be to dynamically size this somehow, so that no
> space is ever wasted.

One possible option is to 'ld -r' all the kernel except the symtab bit.
Then generate the symtab data (or just its size!) and include in a
final link phase.

        David

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