On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:47:33AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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.
I would believe that is not easily possible. I don't know the detailed behavior of libbacktrace, but it is using & parsing the DWARF debug information of the binaries (cc1, cc1plus, ...), so I guess you'll need to patch (significantly) libbacktrace to compress the debug sections. BTW, I don't see the size of cc1 etc... as an issue. Compilers are useful on "development" machines, and these are usually not very small (and have enought disk space). Cheers -- Basile Starynkevitch http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ France basile at starynkevitch.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150803075706.ga22...@ovh.starynkevitch.net