Re: Module sizes very different comparing FC4 --> self compiled

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Hi Adrian, hi Fawad,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:04:14AM +0200, Adrian Bunk told us:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:27:02AM +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote:
> > 
> > Have you tried to compile the stock kernel provided with the FC4
> > Distribution ?? Is the size remains same ??? Because most of the
> > Debugging Symbols are already activated (Y), and the size Sven
> > mentioned 7-times bigger I don't think its just due to debugging
> > symbols !!! the debugging symbols just adds some printks and some
> > debugging code not that much code ... So plzz first try to compile the
> > FC4 kernel with the distribution ..... and watch for the size
> > difference .....
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO adds -g to the CFLAGS, and therefore a factor of 7 in 
> the code size is not a big surprise.

yes might be but in the FC4 kernels CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled, too,
and its modules aren't that big...I'm currently rebuilding a FC4 kernel
SRPM, I'll come back later when the build is finished :-)


Thanks!!

Sven

>
> > Fawad Lateef
>
> cu
> Adrian
> 
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