On 15 September 2013 21:02, Dicebot <pub...@dicebot.lv> wrote: > On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 19:59:48 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 15 September 2013 20:46, Dicebot <pub...@dicebot.lv> wrote: >>> >>> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 18:09:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> du -h lib64/libgphobos2.a >>>> 73M lib64/libgphobos2.a >>>> >>>> strip --strip-unneeded lib64/libgphobos2.a >>>> >>>> du -h lib64/libgphobos2.a >>>> 18M lib64/libgphobos2.a >>> >>> >>> >>> Well, looks like you have just found a bug in default Arch Linux >>> makepkg.conf :) It does only "--strip-debug" for static libraries (for >>> unknown reasons I am trying to figure out). >>> >>> Thanks :) >> >> >> --strip-debug should do the trick as well... --strip-unneeded >> probably isn't recommended for libraries. ;) > > > Well, with --strip-debug it is back to the original situation in the very > first comment, numbers there are with --strip-debug (what is the potential > danger with --strip-unneeded?)
--strip-unneeded could potentially cause lots of undefined reference errors on static libraries. Shared libraries don't suffer this because symbols are put into a special section which strip knows not to touch. General rule of them: binaries: strip <file> static libraries: strip --strip-debug <file> shared libraries: strip --strip-unneeded <file> -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
