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Re: make dist target for Windows


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: make dist target for Windows
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:55:50 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > Finally, one more request: I think it would be nice to have a much
>> > smaller *.exe files in the binary distribution, by stripping the debug
>> > info from them.  (We currently use DWARF2 debug info, which is quite
>> > voluminous.)  For all the executables but emacs.exe, this is simple:
>> The pretest binaries should not be stripped, tho, right?
> I'm not sure.  People who depend on others to prepare binaries for
> them tend not to have GDB installed, either.

Some do, and in any case it's a lot easier to tell them to install GDB
than to tell them to recompile Emacs.


        Stefan




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