[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Use libtool for lib creation and allow building shared libs

Helmut Schaa helmut.schaa at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 9 08:26:08 UTC 2013


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Helmut Schaa
<helmut.schaa at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> I think that your binaries must include debug symbols.  I don't know why
>> you would include debug symbols in binaries meant for a
>> space-constrained application.
>
> Nope, I don't include debug symbols in my builds at the moment.

Actually, this was not clear enough.

The build  that generated the numbers for the commit log was having
debug symbols.
When compiling on mips without debug symbols, enable binary stripping
and -Os I can
squeeze OVS into less the 2MByte (including the above patch).

Helmut



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