On 15 September 2013 22:05, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > 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. >
Just tested on my system, original size = 74240. strip-debug size = 17800. strip-unneeded size = 17448. So --strip-debug should is sufficient in reducing binary sizes. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
