On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Hi -
>
> I wrote:
>
> > I see what you mean.  I've tried to gather this data about llvm on my
> > workstation, but recent rpmbuild's keep barfing with: [...]
>
> Uninstalling lua-devel and glibc-devel.i686 resulted in complete &
> comparable llvm 20.1.7 x86-64 builds.  Added some representative
> statistics to the Change table.


Thanks! If you still have the rpm, would you mind also sharing how large
the installed size is? (Via something like rpm2cpio
llvm-static-20.1.7-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv followed by du -sh usr).


> Indeed the couple of llvm-static
> subrpms grow substantially - but debuggability improves with a thousand
> new source files identified.  Whether that's worth it is for y'all to
> judge.
>

I'd expect that the new source files are primarily coming from things that
are only shipped statically, such as compiler-rt builtins (LLVM's
equivalent of libgcc).

So in our situation the ideal would probably be to have debuginfo for only
some subpackages such as compiler-rt (relatively small and mostly
static-only), but not others like llvm-static (LLVM in Fedora is usually
linked dynamically, which already has debuginfo).

But if we have to make a choice for the whole package, keeping the status
quo of stripping debuginfo is probably best.


> The minimal /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros tweak to activate this Change
> fully would be just redefining:
>
> %__brp_strip_static_archive /bin/true
>
> instead of the current:
>
> %__brp_strip_static_archive /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive
> %{__strip}
>
> Assuming you'd like to keep llvm static libraries stripped, would
> putting the latter definition into your spec file be an acceptable way
> of maintaining status quo ante for you?  Or would you like a simpler
> syntax?


I think this is fine.

Regards,
Nikita
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