Mrinal Kalakrishnan forced the electrons to say:
>
> He meant strip the compiled binary! Use:
>
> strip /usr/local/bin/mutt
Fundaes...
When a program is compiled, the compiler puts in a lot of debugging
information into the resultant binary, to make debugging easier (eg.,
gdb can read a binary which was compiled with the -g flag to gcc and
then tell you even line numbers from source files where a particular
thing is happening). Once your program is stable, there is no need for
this information and you can safely strip it away. You can either do it
via the -s flag to gcc (put this in the LDFLAGS field of the Makefile)
or via the strip utility.
I think the same goes for profiling info as well.
Binand
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