GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 325193
Stripping of binaries
Last modified: 2018-07-11 22:45:55 UTC
I was reading through gar.mk and noticed that stripping isn't yet implemented in GAR. pkgmk from the CRUX distribution (http://www.crux.nu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/file/tools/pkgutils/trunk/pkgmk.in) does this nicely. Search for strip_files() to see the magic. An example ".nostrip" file has this content: ^usr/X11R6/lib/modules/.*$ There are only two such files in the entire distribution. The one above from xorg and another one for glibc, so I consider the function pretty safe. In general it seems to have a significant impact on package sizes, and with disks usually being the biggest bottlenecks these days, I imagine that startup times etc. would be equally increased. Anyway, the gmake porting of it is so ugly that I'd be embarrassed to show it. It would be nice if someone could do it properly.
to workaround to this issue usually I run a scan into the $prefix/bin to strip all binaries after the garnome installation and it works very well for me
GARNOME has not seen any code changes since 2008: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/garnome/log This project is not under active development anymore and got archived in Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list