Re: LLVM strip -x fails

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 20.04.23 17:33, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Peter, it's unlikely given the timeframe, but do you happen to remember why
>> you specified -x when stripping static libs?

> I suspect this was copied from GNU Libtool. Libtool still has that but
> later changed the stripping of static libraries on darwin to "strip -S".
> Maybe should adopt that.

I tried that, but it seems strictly worse on output file size:

$ ll lib*/libpq.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 715312 Apr 21 12:52 lib-no-strip/libpq.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 209984 Apr 21 12:51 lib-strip-S/libpq.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 208456 Apr 21 12:50 lib-strip-x/libpq.a
$ ll lib*/libecpg.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 324952 Apr 21 12:52 lib-no-strip/libecpg.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 102752 Apr 21 12:51 lib-strip-S/libecpg.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 tgl staff 102088 Apr 21 12:50 lib-strip-x/libecpg.a

If you use both -x and -S, you get the same file sizes as with -x
alone. Not sure why we should change anything here.

regards, tom lane