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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:13:20 +0100
From: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
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Subject: Re: make deb-pkg: Does not strip debug symbols when compressing
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:13:20 +0100
From: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Subject: Re: make deb-pkg: Does not strip debug symbols when compressing
 modules

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:15:52PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:10:41PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Hi
> >=20
> > When using (only tested with XZ compression, but the others should
> > behave similarly) CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ=3Dy to compress the modules,
> > it looks that the debug symbols are not striped.
> >=20
> > Building with the attached test configuration results in packages:
> >=20
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build  8.9M Dec 14 20:47 linux-headers-6.7.0-rc5+_6.=
7.0-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-1_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build   75M Dec 14 20:48 linux-image-6.7.0-rc5+-dbg_=
6.7.0-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-1_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build 1014M Dec 14 20:47 linux-image-6.7.0-rc5+_6.7.=
0-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-1_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build  1.3M Dec 14 20:47 linux-libc-dev_6.7.0-rc5-00=
042-g88035e5694a8-1_amd64.deb
> >=20
> > This is odd, the linux-image-6.7.0-rc5+ package has a size of almost
> > 1G and the modules are not stripped.
> >=20
> > Switching the values instread to=20
> >=20
> > CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE=3Dy
> > # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ is not set
> >=20
> > the packages are again produced correctly:
> >=20
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build 8.9M Dec 14 20:59 linux-headers-6.7.0-rc5+_6.7=
=2E0-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-2_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build 819M Dec 14 21:00 linux-image-6.7.0-rc5+-dbg_6=
=2E7.0-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-2_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build  73M Dec 14 20:59 linux-image-6.7.0-rc5+_6.7.0=
-rc5-00042-g88035e5694a8-2_amd64.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 build build 1.3M Dec 14 20:59 linux-libc-dev_6.7.0-rc5-000=
42-g88035e5694a8-2_amd64.deb
>=20
> and the classical one. Missed to attach the promised attachement. The
> used config is now here.

:)

Hi Salvatore,

did you try to build with 'make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=3D1 ...'?  When I'm
reproducing your issue here, the flag reduces the package size from ~1GB
to ~95MB.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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