[Spice-devel] [nsis v3 2/2] build: Don't add .pdb debug files to the installer

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:26:00AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > 
> > > The .pdb files contain the debug information for the drivers. They
> > > increase significantly the size of the installer, so it's better not to
> > > ship them.
> > 
> > On the other side bug report will contain much less informations.
> > Not really sure about it.
> 
> Which bug reports? :) (I don't think I ever got any report about driver
> crashes). I would reconsider when we start getting bug reports where we
> need these symbols.
> 
> Christophe
> 

No idea, was just thinking that if somebody packaged these files maybe they want
them installed. They are not directly in the virtio-win package but in the ISO.
Maybe we should remove from the ISO too ?
I had a look at the inf files and they not reference the pdb files.

Frediano