On 01.06.2011 20:33, Dan McGee wrote:
Florian Pritz wrote:
I've asked a few people, looked at the code used for stripping and I think it's safe to check only executable files. That cut down the time needed for sage from 5 min to 19 sec (i7-920, tempfs).
I've also noticed that the stripping code uses -perm -o+x and not -executable. The manpage says -executable also checks ACLs and owner, group, other. Any reason why we don't use -executable?
If it's not portable, we need a specific case for GNU/Linux. But we already have to do that for other tools. If you can find it in the manpages for our current known-working
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Xavier <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> wrote: platforms (FreeBSD, OS X, Cygwin?), then I'm fine with switching to it. Otherwise as Xavier said it might not be worth the hassle.
Ok, I'll just use u+x and not waste our time. I also noticed the strip code actually uses u+w so this shouldn't be changed anyway (.a files are 644 only). -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net