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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Dec 9 17:06:27 UTC 2013


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:26:08AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> 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).

OK, that makes more sense.  I didn't know why x86_64 would generate
gigantic binaries.



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