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Re: Stripping exe's
O.k. I've turned it on in the cygwin.cf file.
Note: This only strips the programs that end up in /usr/X11R6/bin, the
symbol table still remain on the ones in your built tree which still allows
you to debug them.
Alan.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:09:24PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> For distribution we need to enable stripping.
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:06 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Stripping exe's
> >
> >
> > One thing I have noticed with the new auto-import libraries
> > is that the size of the exe's bloat by several hundred K. I
> > don't know the technical reasons behind it, but......
> >
> > Anyone have any objections to me enabling the stripping of
> > exe's in XFree86 ?
> >
> > Which puts them back to the right kind of size.
> >
> > The developers can always re-enable it for debugging.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > PS. I just reduced my /usr/X11R6/bin directory from 88MB to 38MB.
> >