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From: tony@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD striping the debug info from the kernel
Date: 16 Jun 1996 22:10:05 GMT
Organization: University of Natal
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: riff_one@athenet.net (Brian) wrote:
: > Is this the proper sequence for compiling, striping
: > and installing a new kernel?
: >
: > /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
: > cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL
: > make depend
: > make
: > strip -x kernel
: > make install
: No, it ain't. ``strip -d kernel'' would be the right thing.
Besides the saving in disk space, is there any advantage to stripping
the kernel ?
Tony
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