[Bug 325193] New: Stripping of binaries

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           Summary: Stripping of binaries
           Product: GARNOME
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: garnome-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: mark borkware net
         QAContact: garnome-list gnome org
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


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.


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