On 07/04/2015 04:23 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:10:15 +0200 Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: >> On 04/30/2015 10:43 PM, Daniel Serpell wrote: >>> Currently, gcc-5 packages are really big because the files under >>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5 are not stripped, and each one of >>> lto1, cc1 and cc1plus is about 130MB. >>> >>> Please, can those files be striped in the default installation? >> >> I'd like to avoid this, and only change that near the next Debian release. >> These binaries are linked against libbacktrace to provide a verbose >> backtrace on >> internal compiler errors, which you can't get with stripped binaries. > > Linking against libbacktrace seems completely fine. However, can > libbacktrace not use detached debug symbols, as found in -dbg packages?
No. Plus, Basile mentions that plugins won't work anymore with stripped binaries, however I fail to see why that would be the case. We had clang plugin working in the past too. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
