Stripping exe's

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

For distribution we need to enable stripping.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Hourihane [ mailto:alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk ] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:06 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Stripping exe's
> 
> 
> One thing I have noticed with the new auto-import libraries 
> is that the size of the exe's bloat by several hundred K. I 
> don't know the technical reasons behind it, but......
> 
> Anyone have any objections to me enabling the stripping of 
> exe's in XFree86 ?
> 
> Which puts them back to the right kind of size.
> 
> The developers can always re-enable it for debugging.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> PS. I just reduced my /usr/X11R6/bin directory from 88MB to 38MB.
>