Dave Jones wrote:
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.
That was the magic bullet, Dave. Thanks.
Funny that I didn't catch that.
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