svn commit: r251512 - in head: . etc etc/mtree gnu/usr.bin/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/amd64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/arm gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/i386 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/ia64 gnu/usr.bin/gdb/arch/mips gnu/...

[Don Lewis]

On  7 Jun, Ed Maste wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Fri Jun  7 21:40:02 2013
> New Revision: 251512
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251512
> 
> Log:
>   Add a new knob WITH_DEBUG_FILES to control the building of standalone
>   debug files for userland programs and libraries.  The "-g" debug flag
>   is automatically applied when WITH_DEBUG_FILES is set.
>   
>   The debug files are now named ${prog}.debug and ${shlib}.debug for
>   consistency with other systems and documentation.  In addition they are
>   installed under /usr/lib/debug, to simplify the process of installing
>   them if needed after a crash.  Users of bsd.{prog,lib}.mk outside of the
>   base system place the standalone debug files in a .debug subdirectory.
>   GDB automatically searches both of these directories for standalone
>   debug files.

Can the debug files be compressed so they don't take up as much room? It
looks like gdb supports compressed symbol files.  The same would be nice
for /boot/kernel/*.symbols, btw ...