Bug#783876: gcc-5: consider stripping lto1 / cc1 / cc1plus
On 07/04/2015 04:23 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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?
No.
Plus, Basile mentions that plugins won't work anymore with stripped binaries,
however I fail to see why that would be the case. We had clang plugin working in
the past too.
Matthias
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