Time to stop stripping binaries?

[Lawrence Stewart]

On 06/18/10 07:35, Max Laier wrote:
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 22:33:34 M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Now that disks are big, can we stop stripping binaries by default?
>>
>> I've worked up a patch that lets you set WITH_BINARY_SYMBOLS or
>> WITHOUT_BINARY_SYMBOLS as you see fit.  We should commit it regardless
>> of the outcome of this discussion (well, defaulting to yes or no
>> depending on the outcome).
>>
>> Why symbols: it makes core dumps easier to debug.
>> Why no symbols: makes the system footprint bigger.
>>
>> Since there's good arguments both ways, I thought I'd make this a
>> knob.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> My vote is with symbols in current and stable, without in releases - by
> default.  i.e. everything people build at home from an unknown repo state
> should have symbols, everything we "ship" can be reproduced if needed.
>
> The reasoning is that root (at least as prepared by previous sysinstall
> default installs) is small already.  If we want to ship with symbols on by
> default, we should start to increase the size of the root partition first.  We
> might have done so already, but I'm not sure at the moment.  Just so we don't
> alienate users by breaking the upgrade path with small roots.

+1 to all of the above and +1 to bumping the default root partition size 
so we can eventually have the option to ship symbols in releases as well.

Cheers,
Lawrence