On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:48 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > >> Luigi, what exactly does the following chunk of code do in build.sh? >> >> if [ "$STRIP_LUATEX" = "FALSE" ] >> then >> export CFLAGS >> export CXXFLAGS >> fi > > > uh.. it's there from beta-0.72.0.. I don't remember. > Could be a leftover from the --debug switch, probably not all the code taken > the -g switches correctly at that time. > We will remove for TL 2016, if the case.
My question is: can you explain the difference? I'm unable to understand what is different when you call that export and when you don't. Because the --nostrip binaries are 50% bigger even after I run strip manually and this seems like the only place one could blame for the difference. Mojca
