From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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 20:54:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C56278.6090105@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C55EE4.9010103@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> 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).
>
Fair point. So how about a strip: target for just stripping the binaries
in the directory? That way one can do "make strip install", but
everything else will work as always. Better yet, make it
strip:
strip $(STRIP_OPTS) $(PROGRAMS)
so Linus can set STRIP_OPTS=--strip-debug and everybody's happy.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 19:54 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
2006-01-11 19:54 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
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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