On Thursday, 14 May 2020 13:24:06 PDT Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > I recently discovered there is a binutils tools for size optimizing dwarf > > debug symbols, and it really works. When applied to Qt debug symbol > > binaries it makes them about 25% smaller on average (some up to 40% > > smaller). And that is just the simple optimization. We can save more by > > combining duplicates from multiple debug symbol binaries into one shared > > one, but that would change the files we ship. > > For what is worth Debian packages have been doing this with Qt without > issues (of course as a post process after building Qt and before > packaging them).
No distro relies on Qt's stripping routines. They all build with -no-strip and then figure out themselves using their own techniques. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
