[Rcpp-devel] Stripping symbols and Cran

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 September 2017 at 17:46, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| Note that macOS doesn't include debugging info in the objects so stripping is meaningless there.
| I wasn't on the full thread - which package are we talking about?

Michael started the thread generally musing about large sizes of object files
from C++.  And he has a point :)

And he found my blog post showing the (absurd !!) gains from stripping, tried
it on macOS and had issues.  It so happens that I just updated the stone-old
RcppClassic on the weekend, and in my infinite wisdom include such a call to
strip with the unavailable-on-macOS option :-/   Oops. I broke my build.

Fix coming to a CRAN mirror near you, likely testing for /usr/bin/strip AND
being on Linux.

Dirk

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