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List:       kde-optimize
Subject:    Re: stripping kde libs and binaries
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-10-20 16:55:55
Message-ID: 200410201855.56092.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:21, Karl Vogel wrote:
> Juergen Pfennig <info@j-pfennig.de> wrote in
>
> news:200410191843.12294.info@j-pfennig.de:
> > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 12:53, CPH wrote:
> >> What about also running the strip command on libs and binaries ?
>
> That's something the distro's need to do (and they are already doing it,
> AFAIK)... but it's a fact that due to the usage of the kdeinit fork hack,
> that most binaries export way more symbols than necessary. (default with
> GCC+ELF is that everything is exported).
>
> GCC 3.4.2 finally has an option to change the default to hidden. A while
> ago I changed my KDE to only export what was needed.. but I didn't get too
> much reponse on the patch, so I stopped working on it.

I remember, IMO important and good work :-)
Please don't stop working on this, now that 3.3 is out maybe there is a chance 
to get it applied now.

Bye
Alex
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