Stripping binaries in modular build

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:52 +0100, Martijn Uffing wrote:
> Ave people
> 
> 
> I'm trying to build xorg/Mesa from the CVS tree on a debian sarge system.
> So far so good, but the resulting /tmp/modular and building tree are 
> becoming... quite huge.
> 
> I can imagine the CVS tree is meant to be build for developers, so full of 
> debug info. However, I just want to test it with my hardware and want 
> to keep the /tmp/modular and buildtree small.
> 
> I can't find any switch in the build.sh script or the various configure 
> scripts to strip the binaries of debug info. Do I overlook something?

CFLAGS=-O2
export CFLAGS

Before you configure will build everything without debugging
information. On the other hand, if you build everything without
debugging information, you won't be able to submit useful bug
reports so the value of building from CVS is minimal...

					Owen