On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:40:56PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
A freshly, not updated FC2 box:
du -hs /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
220M /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
make mrproper
cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config
make oldconfig
make
du -hs /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
1.2GB (or thereabouts)
I have done no more examination, before I do, does anyone know what's
up? The resultant kernel and modules are fine FWIW, so no problem there,
just the size is the issue.
disable CONFIG_DEBUGINFO and things will be a *lot* smaller.
Normally, this gets stripped out into the debuginfo rpm during
the rpm build.
Dave