From: Baruch Siach via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ncurses: Enable stripping of progs
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:20:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6f2wva3.fsf@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260815-ncurses_strip-v1-1-da424b80d70d@gmail.com> (Charlie Jenkins's message of "Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:27:12 -0700")
Hi Charlie,
On Sat, Aug 15 2026, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> Commit 2ab611c40ff08bd4a7922456fed22af6953af3b1("ncurses: fix build
> failure with ncurses 6.1") added --disable-stripping to the ncurses
> build because ncurses started stripping by default but using the host
> strip instead of the cross strip.
>
> Enable stripping and change the strip program to $(TARGET_CROSS)strip.
> This shrinks the binary sizes of the programs generated by
> BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_TARGET_PROGS on aarch64 by:
>
> clear: 18k -> 10k
> infocmp: 76k -> 62k
> tabs: 27k -> 18k
> tic: 103k -> 87k
> toe: 27k -> 18k
> tput: 33k -> 22k
> tset: 33k -> 22k
The 'target-finalize' target defined in top level Makefile should strip
all target binaries. Lookup STRIPCMD in top Makefile.
Doesn't that work for ncurses binaries?
baruch
>
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@gmail.com>
> ---
> package/ncurses/ncurses.mk | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
> index 5e2077500a..e017bacf6e 100644
> --- a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
> +++ b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ NCURSES_CONF_OPTS = \
> --enable-const \
> --enable-overwrite \
> --enable-pc-files \
> - --disable-stripping \
> + --with-strip-program=$(TARGET_CROSS)strip \
> --with-pkg-config-libdir="/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
> $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_TARGET_PROGS),,--without-progs) \
> --without-manpages
>
> ---
> base-commit: e389f1b44c54660c7bb5512207a561e684b41595
> change-id: 20260815-ncurses_strip-615a30afa120
>
> Best regards,
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2026-08-16 1:27 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ncurses: Enable stripping of progs Charlie Jenkins
2026-08-16 4:20 ` Baruch Siach via buildroot [this message]
2026-08-16 4:46 ` Charlie Jenkins
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