On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:49:05AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Gang, > > This is a really silly question, but when building kernels from the > source RPMs (it'd be nice if we had the old RHL-style "kernel-source" > RPMs, but one must do what one must do), what is the magic flag to > include to make the modules NOT have the whole symbol table included? > > As distributed, the binary kernel RPM module suite is something like > 55MB. If you build it from source and do a "make modules_install", the > modules suck up over 200MB. Running "strip" on any given module gets it > down to a reasonable size, but it doesn't match the size of the one > included in the binary RPM. > > I'm obviously missing something here. The rpmbuild process strips the debug data out of the module and puts into a seperate debuginfo package. (Ever wonder why they were so huge?) For local builds, I'd recommend turning off the CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO option unless you're going to need it. Dave
