[oe] Broken git-native in dev

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 17:55:39 UTC 2009


On (14/07/09 19:04), Henning Heinold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I stumbled over some mess up with git-native. I wondered why disk was full. I examined
> that my staging dir was about 3 gig's. I examined further and found ot that most of the space comes
> from i686-linux/libexec/git-core. Problem is we install git-bins without calling strip
> so each 130 executables is about 22 Megs. If no one has a quick solution I will try dig further.
> 

I think this is due to -ggdb3 flag being passed to native recipes.
Unless we want to debug native recipes we should avoid excessive debug
info for those packages to save on disk space.

> Maybee we should put a test in the native class which checks if the executables are striped.

yeah that would work too but then why generate debug info at all if we 
do not want to keep it.

Thx
-Khem




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