On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:22:59PM -0600, Brian Callahan wrote:
> CVSROOT:      /cvs
> Module name:  ports
> Changes by:   [email protected] 2020/03/23 12:22:59
> 
> Log message:
>     Import devel/dwz, a DWARF optimization and duplicate removal tool.
>     tweaks and ok espie@
>     
>     dwz is a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging information
>     contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size, by
>     replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent smaller
>     representation where possible and by reducing the amount of duplication
>     using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - creating
>     DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated information
>     and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU that needs it.

Eventually (soon), we'll test whether dwz works correctly with
DEBUG_PACKAGES...

That should alleviate some of the pressure on the mirrors.

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