On 2002.02.22 22:27 Brian Paul wrote:
> Jose Fonseca wrote:
> >
> > Luckily, after sending the previous email the script completed
> > sucessfully. The generated packages are available at:
> >
> > http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/dri/packages/
> >
> > Unfortunately, as you can notice the packages are huge. Attached is a
> > file list of the i810 driver. libGLcore, e.g., is 18 MB..!
> 
> 18MB for libGLcore.a seems really large.  If I run strip on it then
> it's only 1.7MB. But evidently that removes some essential XFree86
> loader symbols.
> 
> What about 'strip --strip-debug'?  That reduces the module to 2.2MB
> and it seems to retain the GLcoreSetup and VersRec symbols.  I can't
> test this right now but maybe somebody else can.
> 
> -Brian
> 

Doesn't work. This was the option I first tried at that time. I even tried 
some wierd configurations that I saw in some SRPMS that eliminated only 
some sections but 'strip' always removed crucial symbols, no matter what.

Only if I have two build trees: with and without debugging info.

José Fonseca

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