On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > stripping em all reduces their size dramatically > > I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? > > do I miss anything ?
I haven't seen anyone point out the downside to stripping binaries and libraries: removal of debugging symbols. "The apebajs program suddenly crashes in some library, here's the now-completely-useless backtrace". The user is then forced to go back and recompile *everything* to get debugging symbols. The non-stripping situation is on a per-port basis, AFAIK. Not all ports have WITH_DEBUG. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
