Hi! On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 07:33, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Qt > > I recently discovered there is a binutils tools for size optimizing dwarf > debug symbols, and it really works. When applied to Qt debug symbol binaries > it makes them about 25% smaller on average (some up to 40% smaller). And that > is just the simple optimization. We can save more by combining duplicates from > multiple debug symbol binaries into one shared one, but that would change the > files we ship.
For what is worth Debian packages have been doing this with Qt without issues (of course as a post process after building Qt and before packaging them). -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
