Building Kernel in Debug Mode

[Timothy Murphy]

bruce wrote:

> i'm looking to build the kernel from source - both regular, and in debug.
> any pointers, sites, or instructions would be helpful...

Is there such a thing as a "debug" kernel?

You can get the "vanilla" kernel sources from http://www.kernel.org .
On de-tarring this, you say "make xconfig"
and you are offered a million options,
some of which give greater debug output.
This creates a file .config, and then you say
"make", "make modules_install", "make install".

Your distribution probably supplies a model config file to start from.

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