Bug 4145

Summary:	Ability to strip debug flags doing emerge installation
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	David Nielsen <Lovechild>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	webmaster
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=6052
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Nielsen 2002-06-25 11:36:51 UTC

I don't know if we are doing this already, but I see many of the users already 
user -fomit-frame-pointer and that indicates to me that many don't need tp 
debug, so why not set a USE varible maybe to automatically strip the installed 
ebuild after ended compilation for it's debug flags:  
 
The command would be:  
strip --strip-debug filename  
 
the LFS project stats this numbers:  
A dynamic Bash binary with debugging symbols: 1.2 MB  
A dynamic Bash binary without debugging symbols: 478 KB  
/lib and /usr/lib (glibc and gcc files) with debugging symbols: 87 MB  
/lib and /usr/lib (glibc and gcc files) without debugging symbols: 16 MB  
 
That means a smaller install, and if I remember correctly a faster system, as 
the binary we have to load is smaller.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-03 17:05:08 UTC

This is already done by default.