Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:55:03 -0500
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       ccache@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:51:38PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:48:37PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > 
> > with a distro kernel config (ie: Fedora's[1]) still results in
> > 1.8GB of modules (willy checked that it wasn't a Fedora toolchain
> > bug by reproducing on a Debian system.)
> 
> P.S.  I have a hacked make-kpkg which installs the modules via:
> 
>       make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1  modules_install
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not using kbuild's make install builddeb since it
> doesn't create the headers and debuginfo files; and the debian's
> official kernel building scripts (make-kpkg has been deprecated)
> doesn't correctly deal with creating debuginfo files, either. 
> 
> In any case, its make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 which is getting busted by
> the two commits, and which also spike out ccache and distcc.
> 

Right, I had a braino and forgot that having 1.8GB of modules is
actually expected. The broken stage is the stripping of the debuginfo
into a seperate set of files, so it's likely Fedora-specific.

regards, Kyle
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