On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I commented out the lines of code above, did a --nostrip build and then stripped the binaries manually. The file size after stripping is now 8632136. Clearly, those lines seem to make some sort of difference. Deepak
