[xmonad] darcs patch: strip generated binary

Spencer Janssen spencerjanssen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 04:10:35 EDT 2009


On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:45:47PM -0500, Adam Vogt wrote:
> This noticeably cuts down the size of the generated binary;
> on x86_64:
> 
> 6.1M before
> 3.7M after
> 
> Or if the symbols are in some way useful, it wouldn't be difficult to add a 
> command line option to not strip.
> 
> Adam

> Wed Feb  4 19:30:00 EST 2009  Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com>
>   * Strip symbols from generated xmonad binary

The consensus seems to be that this may not be portable.  It would be nice to
shave a few megabytes, but it is not worth risking portability in my opinion.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen


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