On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:16:19 +0000
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:21:00PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > > And use the following kernel config option, if you want the debug
> > > information:
> > > 	makeoptions DEBUG="-g"
> > 
> > ... which creates a big netbsd.gdb with debugging information and a
> > small netbsd without them.
> 
> Don't forget keep the "netbsd.gdb" around which will be very handy
> when having a look at a kernel crash dump later.
> 
Perhaps 'make install' in the kernel build directory should copy
both /netbsd and /netbsd.gdb to /, and savecore should copy both
to /var/crash.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb