Build XGCC without debug info?

[Langerholc, Larry]

I don't know about building the compiler without symbols, but I believe that
the "strip" command would do the job for you. I copied my executable to /tmp
(just to be safe) and after running "strip",
it dropped in size from 171924 to 86016 bytes.
Regards,
Larry Langerholc

Larry Langerholc 
e-mail: larry.langerholc@icn.siemens.com 
phone: (561)-923-1789
fax:   (561)-923-1708

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Bahns [ mailto:chris@bahns.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:02 PM
> To: crossgcc@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Build XGCC without debug info?
> 
> 
> It seems that when building a cross-compiler (using binutils-2.10,
> gcc-2.95.2, and newlib-1.8.2), the resulting binaries are by default
> built with debug information (I know because I am able to use gdb to
> step through the compiler source). Anyone know an easy (or proper) way
> to build the compiler and libraries without debug info? I assume the
> resulting files would be quite a bit smaller.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> Chris
> 
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