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

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:

> On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>
> > > Modified Files:
> > >         src/sys/conf [matt-nb5-mips64]: Makefile.kern.inc
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Don't abort if DBSYM fails.
> >
> > It was intentionally changed to fatal:
> > http://cvsweb.NetBSD.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc#rev1.70
> > > > . Make this error a fatal build time error
> > ---
> > Izumi Tsutsui
>
> I see no reason to make it fatal.  It means that when I build a  
> kernel with
> DEBUG, my kernel build will fail.  That's stupid.
>
> /u1/netbsd-nb5-mips64/tools/bin/mips64el--netbsd-strip -g -X -o  
> netbsd netbsd.gdb
> /u1/netbsd-nb5-mips64/tools/bin/mips64el--netbsd-dbsym netbsd
> mips64el--netbsd-dbsym: symbol table (6124416 bytes) too big for  
> buffer (175000 bytes)
> Increase options SYMTAB_SPACE in your kernel config
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 matt  staff   9262360 Sep  4 20:28 MALTA64/netbsd
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 matt  staff  29851080 Sep  4 20:28 MALTA64/netbsd.gdb

We should figure out a way to make symbols "appendable" as an ELF  
section.

>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 2609483  223104  267656 3100243  2f4e53 MALTA64/netbsd
> 2609483  223104  267656 3100243  2f4e53 MALTA64/netbsd.gdb

-- thorpej