[haiku-development] Re: R1a4 anyboot is 8004MiB (and CafePress disc service is offline)

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:02:39 +0000

On 9/12/12, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2012 3:00 AM, "Stephan Aßmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Am 12.09.2012 03:26, schrieb Matt Madia:
>
>>> As of now. The r1a4 anyboot image is 804MiB, with about 20MiB free. So,
>>> if we aimed for CD size,then some programs/optional packages would need
>>> to be trimmed out.
>>
>> Can we strip some third party apps to remove debug information? Or is
> this a bad idea? Or can we put more stuff into ZIPs?
>
> Good point.  Back in hrev44240, I disabled the stripping of debug symbols
> from the optional packages[1]  That turned out to be stripping the
> wpa_supplicant binary and breaking it.
>
> Maybe InstallOptionalHaikuImagePackage could be extended to support a new
> optional parameter stripDebugSymbols,  which defaults to true.  To control
> that, the HAIKU_STRIP_DEBUG_FROM_OPTIONAL_PACKAGES = 1 ;  could be
> re-added.  Then for wpa_supplicant, stripDebugSymbols would be set to
> false.

This was done in hrev44648 and the commits associated with its push.
Now, a GCC 2 Hybrid anyboot image is 743MiB -- still a ways off from
fitting on a CD.

--mmadia

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