Building 2.6 kernels on FC1

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:46, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:40 +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > 1) .c source files are installed
> > in /lib/modules/2.6.3/... ? I've no idea how you managed that.
> No idea either; it could not have anything to do with gcc32 could it?

shouldn't do.

> > > 2) size bloat of an order of magnitude
> > Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO.
> > 
> How does RH keep the size of kernel packages down then? Are the debug
> info stripped to a kernel-debug package which is not published?

There's a debuginfo package.

>  Running 'file' on /lib/modules .ko files show that they are not stripped.

the debug info is stripped, but not the symbols etc.

	Dave