[MPlayer-dev-eng] Strip MPlayer/MEncoder binary with "-s"

Tue Mar 27 04:19:14 CEST 2007

On Tuesday, 27 March 2007 at 03:47, Stanley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to add "-s" in --extra-libs. As you know, adding "-s" causes the 
> GCC linker to strip out the unused code from the binary. The result is 
> the binary of MPlayer/MEncoder is 1-3MB smaller (depending on features 
> compiled in) than before.
> My question is will this do harm to some functions of MPlayer/MEncoder. 
> If not, why isn't '-s' added by default. I did some tests and until now 
> didn't find any problem.

What makes you think it isn't stripped?

$ cat Makefile
[...]
install-mplayer: mplayer$(EXESUF)
        $(INSTALL) -m 755 $(INSTALLSTRIP) mplayer$(EXESUF) $(BINDIR)
[...]
install-mencoder: mencoder$(EXESUF)
        $(INSTALL) -m 755 $(INSTALLSTRIP) mencoder$(EXESUF) $(BINDIR)
[...]
$ cat config.mak
[...]
INSTALLSTRIP = -s
[...]

Regards,
R.

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