Hi! On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 19:49, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Indeed, I only meant to say: it works fine, it seems a good idea. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
