Re: CVS commit: src

[Hiroyuki Bessho <bsh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

At Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:17:32 -0700,
Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Hiroyuki Bessho wrote:
> 
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       bsh
> > Date:               Mon Mar 19 05:38:26 UTC 2012
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/external/gpl3/binutils/usr.sbin/dbsym: dbsym.8 dbsym.c
> >     src/sys/arch/arm/conf: Makefile.arm
> >     src/sys/conf: Makefile.kern.inc
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > adjust the size of db_symtab space automatically.
> > proposed on tech-toolchain@, and got no objections.
> 
> Opps.  I meant to complain.  I really dislike the editing of opt_ksyms.h
> since that will cause things to be rebuilt after every config.

  Not so many files depend on opt_ksyms.h.  For evbarm kernels, only
kern_ksyms.o needs to be recompiled after opt_ksyms.h is modified.

> 
> I wonder if we could do a ld -r -o <kernel>_prelink.o *.o 
> and then use that to calculate SYMTAB_SPACE.

  I agree this will be a cleaner way.