Bug#783876: gcc-5: consider stripping lto1 / cc1 / cc1plus
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:10:15 +0200 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 10:43 PM, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> > 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 like to avoid this, and only change that near the next Debian release.
> These binaries are linked against libbacktrace to provide a verbose backtrace on
> internal compiler errors, which you can't get with stripped binaries.
Linking against libbacktrace seems completely fine. However, can
libbacktrace not use detached debug symbols, as found in -dbg packages?
And if so, could you move the symbols for those binaries into an
appropriate -dbg package?
- Josh Triplett
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