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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Question about Compilation Flags
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:21:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161112102142.5fba57e8@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHBw83d+5FzcxpBxmeDM=-uUyMyXLw8pDeywoYrF91pV8wR7ag@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:06:11 +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote:

> Thank you very much for the reply.  I think BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION and
> BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS are
> better solutions than what I did in config/Makefile.in
> 
> I will try lighttpd.mk changes as you suggested.
> 
> These are the numbers I found without changing lighttpd in a special way.
> 
> du -ks output/target/ (default buildroot for mips without
> function/data/gc-section)
> 26188   output/target/
> du -ks output/target/ (with function/data/gc-sections)
> 25012   output/target/
> 
> That gives a saving of 1176 KB then.

That's not bad indeed, about 4.4% space saving.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-12  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-11  9:19 [Buildroot] Question about Compilation Flags Anand Sivaram
2016-11-11 14:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-12  7:36   ` Anand Sivaram
2016-11-12  9:21     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-11-12  9:54       ` Anand Sivaram

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