[pacman-dev] static libraries not stripped?

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that the last ffmpeg package is much bigger than the old
> one (13MB vs 4MB).
> Looking more in depth in the two packages, it looks like it is all the
> static libraries which are much bigger now :
> -rw-r--r-- root/root   4838852 2007-12-05 03:43 usr/lib/libavcodec.a
> -rw-r--r-- root/root  20604500 2008-06-26 03:12 usr/lib/libavcodec.a
>
> Isn't this only because the new one is not stripped?
>
> Here is how it is detected by file :
> $ file -biz /usr/lib/libavcodec.a
> application/x-archive
>
> So could this be an old pacman 3.1 regression ?
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=721ceee1e2c9b18425d84cf39f6541b2f04072b3
>
> Maybe this code also needs to handle x-archive.
>
> $ file -iz /usr/lib/* | grep x-archive | wc -l
> 366
>
> $ file -iz /usr/lib/*.a | grep x-archive | wc -l
> 366
>
> $ file -iz /usr/lib/*.a | grep -v x-archive
> /usr/lib/libcurses.a:                 application/x-not-regular-file
> /usr/lib/libdts.a:                    application/x-not-regular-file
> /usr/lib/libieee.a:                   application/x-object
> /usr/lib/libmcheck.a:                 application/x-object
> /usr/lib/libpng.a:                    application/x-not-regular-file
>
> So a few .a files don't appear as x-archive, but apparently the big
> majority of them do, so maybe this is not a big problem.

I think a patch for this is fair game.

-Dan