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RE: Stripping exe's
- To: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Stripping exe's
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:08:05 -0400
Just as a side note, I've been stripping the Server Test Series releases
pretty much the entire time.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alan
> Hourihane
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: 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.
> > >