Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <address@hidden>
> Cc: Juan José García-Ripoll
>  <address@hidden>,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:13:09 +0000
> 
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Right now in my hard disk I have two copies of statically linked Emacs.
> >
> > (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at
> > least not by default.  The large size is mostly due to debug info, and
> > you can strip it if you want, although I don't recommend doing so for
> > a pretest version, because you cannot produce meaningful backtraces
> > from a stripped binary.)
> 
> The pretests should be stripped actually. I use make install for
> snapshot builds. The ones with an actual version number are make
> install-strip'd.

Given the size, I don't think they are stripped.