[OE-core] libgcc_s.so not stripped

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Mar 3 17:08:34 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 13:25 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Enrico Scholz
> <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed that libgcc_s.so.1 is not stripped in the .ipk.  Is
> > there any reason to keep the debug symbols?  Uncompressed, this makes a
> > difference of more than 1 MB.
> 
> I dont see a reason to have debug info there. Symbol table probably
> should be left in.

I noticed this when clearing out old emails and I've just posted a patch
for it.

Worryingly, there are other non-executables in the lib directories which
aren't getting stripped. I've opened a bug:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3973

Cheers,

Richard





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