Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Similarities between Mingw-cross-env, *BSD Ports, and Gentoo Portage

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 07/10/2011 04:47 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras schrieb:
> > And it would have allowed USE flags to configure the
> > packages when building them ;-)
>
> I could have implemented a similar mechanism in our main Makefile,
> but I hesitated for a specific reason: This would mean that we'll
> get bug reports from people with with different configurations.
>
> It is often hard enough to reproduce issues where everyone runs
> exactly the same (full-featured) build. Allowing that kind of
> flexibility would result in bug reports (and the need to invest
> time to fix those) for many different configurations. And for what?
> Just for saving a few hundred KB in the output *.exe files?

Oh, it's more than a few kB.  I was able to cut the size from over 20MB 
to 8MB.  This also included building everything with "-fdata-sections 
-ffunction-sections" and using a patched binutils to link with 
"--gc-sections" to do dead code stripping.