WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS - *.ko now with debug_info

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

Hi,

since upgrading to stable/13 I was wondering why /boot/kernel is much
larger. When using "WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=" in /etc/src.conf the
kernel modules now contain debug_info. OK? (I manually run "objcopy
--strip-debug".)

FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE #60 stable/13-n245000-12349e667ced:

$ cat /etc/src.conf
WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=

$ file /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/aac/aac.ko
/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/aac/aac.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), BuildID[sha1]=217dd8a5d
dff9c74324fda4986f6234afc128ef8, with debug_info, not stripped
                                 
FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE r369477 GENERIC:

$ cat /etc/src.conf
WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=

$ file /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/aac/aac.ko
/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC/modules/usr/src/sys/modules/aac/aac.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), BuildID[sha1]=a94317d70
5ca9a63a2a8956368cd1d2a6dd92ce1, not stripped

--
Herbert