Re: Size problem compiling kernel modules

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/07/04

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    Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:50:54 -0400
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    Behold, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> hath decreed:
    > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 10:22, Dave Abbott wrote:
    >
    > > I am recompiling the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel from
    > > the patched source, using gcc 3.3 on Fedora Core2
    > >
    > > I have made no more than two modifications to the
    > > .config (to enable NFS_ROOT and DEVFS).
    > >
    > > The resulting module object files are enormous.
    > >
    > > For example, the orginal £com driver as installed:
    > >
    > > drwxr--r-- 1 root root 40100 May 8 14:46 kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
    > >
    > > And the same file as compiled:
    > >
    > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271889 Jun 4 14:16 drivers/net/3c59x.ko
    > >
    > > All the .ko are like this, increasing the size of /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358
    > > from c. 58MB to 337MB
    > >
    > > The files are not stripped, in either case.
    > >
    > > Am I doing something wrong here? Anyone got any ideas?
    >
    > The ones from the rpm have their debug info stripped
    > and put into the aptly named 'debuginfo' rpm.
    > When you compile it yourself, it leaves this info
    > in the file.
    >
    > If you don't care about it you can unset CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
    > and it won't generate it.
    >
    > Dave

    Is there a convenient way to manually strip the debug info from
    the files after they are compiled? In other words, how does rpm
    do it? 

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