Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:38:59 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? Message-ID: <20081119053859.GA77425@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <b10011eb0811160042w158656bld3b91a2bf7cfdd3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <b10011eb0811160042w158656bld3b91a2bf7cfdd3f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > stripping em all reduces their size dramatically > > I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? > > do I miss anything ? I haven't seen anyone point out the downside to stripping binaries and libraries: removal of debugging symbols. "The apebajs program suddenly crashes in some library, here's the now-completely-useless backtrace". The user is then forced to go back and recompile *everything* to get debugging symbols. The non-stripping situation is on a per-port basis, AFAIK. Not all ports have WITH_DEBUG. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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