[xmonad] darcs patch: strip generated binary

[Gwern Branwen]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> How portable?

By a funny coincidence, I was messing with strip a few days ago (for
yi), and my discussion with dcoutts covered just this.

He told me that -optl-s was considered bad, as that option gets passed
to the linker and -s is apparently specific to GNU ld.

The recommended approach (if you aren't going via Cabal, which strips
by default) is to invoke the 'strip' executable.

(My opinion on this is that it's nice to have but not imperative -
with yi, adding a strip call saved more than 10M!)

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gwern