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

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On 2015-04-30 23:10, Matthias Klose 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.

If that's not possible could you please at least change these binaries to
use compressed debug sections at least? That should save quite some space
already.

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