Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: strip generated binary

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:45:47PM -0500, Adam Vogt wrote:

This noticeably cuts down the size of the generated binary; on x86_64:

6.1M before 3.7M after

Or if the symbols are in some way useful, it wouldn't be difficult to add a command line option to not strip.

Adam

Wed Feb 4 19:30:00 EST 2009 Adam Vogt * Strip symbols from generated xmonad binary

The consensus seems to be that this may not be portable. It would be nice to shave a few megabytes, but it is not worth risking portability in my opinion. Cheers, Spencer Janssen