Re: default -g ??!?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, MK wrote:
> Justifications WRT to distro packaging issues, however, seem much more
> reasonable.  However, my conundrum is that I do not think this is a good
> default for people who build from source: years ago, when I was a new
> linux user and used to build stuff from source a lot, I was in the
> habit of stip-all'ing. Now I only source build for particular things,
> and I suppose I got out of this habit for a while and forgot about it.
> So I was surprised this morning to recognize that most of the binaries
> in my /usr/local had debugging symbols!   And after stripping *, I
> noticed that gvim loads much quicker, heh-heh.

The vast majority of Linux users install from binary packages, or via 
source-based install systems which assure that appropriate build 
options are applied.  Very few build by hand and install under 
/usr/local.  Those that do are likely to read the standard INSTALL 
file and therefore know what to do. Things are likely different for 
Plan 9 users due to substantially dimished support for binary packages 
for that OS.

Since you found that gvim loads much quicker after it has been 
stripped, I must assume that you are using the Plan 9 OS rather than 
Linux.

Bob
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