[OE-core] libgcc_s.so not stripped

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

yes as long as symbol table is left intact it should work fine.

>
> 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
>