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Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:56:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> It is simply for me to remove the -g option from the windows build. This
>> would reduce the overall size of the build, to the values given here:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-04/msg00115.html
>>
>> I am happy to do this (for Emacs-27 -- I do not want to change during
>> major release). But I would like feedback from people who either use or
>> handle bug reports for Emacs on Windows to let me know whether this
>> would break things.
>
> There is a simple approach to this: `make install' as usual, package as
> usual (without dependencies) but name that package
> emacs-debug-blah-blah. Now run `strip` on Emacs binary directory and
> proceed to do the normal packaging.
>
> If the user wants to debug Emacs at the C level, he grabs
> emacs-debug-blah-blah and unzips it on top of his current install.
Alas, that would produce a combinatorial explosion -- for Emacs-27 there
are already 6 binary downloads. Adding a debug version of these would
make 12.
Phil
Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package, Phillip Lord, 2019/04/17