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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/04/2020 09:08, Dave Woodfall
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 2020-04-25 17:36,
Slackbuilds Users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org"><slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org></a> put forth the proposition:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">i spotted an optional dep of qt5-webkit which is dwz
this appears to de-duplicate debug symbols etc in elf files. however, as we
tend to remove all
extra debug stuff with strip, It doesn't appear to change the package size
much.
is anyone interested in a dwz as a package?. I did create one to see if it
made much difference
to the qt5-webkit package, and though the size was within 9bytes!, it did
appear to create the package
a bit quicker, so may be worth using.
comments?
regards, Tim
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According to the man page[1], it isn't for qt5-webkit, but for any
ELF binary.
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mankier.com/1/dwz">https://www.mankier.com/1/dwz</a>
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that's right. I haven't seen what else may have code to use it if it
is there (I'm not sure how to do that anyway without downloading all
the sbo package sources and greping for it in makefiles). I
submitted the dwz package yesterday. Generally because the practice
is often to strip the binaries, we wouldn't see much benefit,
unless there are lots of intermediate stages which are sped up with
smaller ELF binaries during the build process.<br>
I only spotted the existence of dwz when going through the
(qt5-webkit) build log, I saw the mention of it, and checked it out,
and saw it is available for lots of other distros, so why not for
slackware? if it improves executable size or build speeds I'm in
favour, but I don't know what else uses it. it appears to be used by
debian, ubuntu, redhat, fedora etc. so the odds are we may see it
appearing more in some packages. I'm not sure which category it
should go in, development or system, but it can be moved if I picked
the wrong one.<br>
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