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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git binary size...
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:39:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C55EE4.9010103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C558FB.3030102@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> I'd suggest adding
> 
> strip:
>     strip $(PROGRAMS)
> 
> install: strip
> 
> to Makefile instead. That way people working on various git-tools won't 
> have to remember to override the CFLAGS when debugging new stuff.
> 

I disagree with both of these.  Most users will not install via "make 
install", but rather via a package manager.  Package managers have long 
since dealt with this problem; in the case of rpm, the debug information 
is stripped off into a separate package.  Having "make install" strip 
would break that -- although defining $(STRIP) makes it a bit easier to 
deal with (STRIP=: make install).

However, if the concern is "the average user" I really think there is no 
reason do bother with this at all -- the average user should to "yum 
install git" or whatever is the equivalent for their distribution.  This 
ain't 1990.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11 18:26 git binary size Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:14 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:39   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-11 19:54     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:56       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-11 20:00         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 19:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:58     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 10:15     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-12 13:49       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-12 17:37         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 18:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 18:32           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-12 18:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 19:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-20 18:00           ` Jon Loeliger
2006-01-12 18:12       ` Linus Torvalds

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