[oe] angstrom-2008.1, uclibc: git-native: sysroot-destdir 6, 4 GB big, since some executables are 100 MB each

[Koen Kooi]

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On 17-07-10 04:06, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 16-07-10 17:23, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Paul Menzel
>>>> <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>>> Dear OE folks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Donnerstag, den 15.07.2010, 19:55 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I ran out of space and noticed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.0.2-r4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is 8,1G big.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of the executable files in
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     /angstrom-dev/work/i686-linux/git-native-1.7.0.2-r4/sysroot-destdir/angstrom-dev/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/libexec/git-core/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> are 101 MB big.
>>>>
>>>> its most probably the -g3/-ggdb3 bloat.
> 
> No, it's git not creating (hard)links but copies of the same app. Run an
> md5sum on the binaries, they will all match. I suggest you stop
> spreading FUD about -ggdb3, it is not being appriciated.
> 
>> Hi Koen
> 
>> Its not FUD and I only speak of what I see with my eyes. I have data
>> to prove it. Compile uclibc with ggdb3 and it ends up with 202M of
>> shared library and without its only ~600K. (with gcc 4.4 and 4.5) I
>> have similar experience with 4.3 but I dont
>> have a build handy to see how big the binaries got.

And I was saying that the 8GB of git, if a bug in git, not with gdb3. I
know gdb3 makes unstripped executables bigger and don't deny that.

I do take offence with you saying that the root cause is -ggdb3, when
it's actually git being buggy. And as you have seen, instead of fixing
git, people are removing -ggdb3 :(

regards,

Koen
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