Re: Bug#783876: gcc-5: consider stripping lto1 / cc1 / cc1plus

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On 06/28/2015 05:52 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 17:43:00 -0300, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> > Package: gcc-5
> > Version: 5.1.1-2
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Currently, gcc-5 packages are really big because the files under
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5 are not stripped, and each one of
> > lto1, cc1 and cc1plus is about 130MB.
> >
> > Please, can those files be striped in the default installation?
> I'd second that, in my case all the involved packages are using almost
> 1 GiB of additional disk space.
>
> In the meantime I'm stripping the files on installation/upgrade via
> triggers:
>
>    <http://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/gcc-on-diet.git/>
>
> in case others find it useful. And I guess I could create a package
> repository for it, if there's demand.



Don't do that. If you strip cc1 & cc1plus (etc...) you cannot have GCC 
plugins.

Regards

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