build_type Release/RelWithDebInfo

[ViliusSutkus89]

Just did all 4 arches pdf2htmlex build for both build types.
RelWithDebInfo du -hs ~/.conan2/p is 8.2G
Release du -hs ~/.conan2/p is 6.8G

I don't think this is the biggest issue

I've looked at this a bit more, yes, the full build tree doesn't differ that much, but final binaries do differ a lot.

Linux x86_64 odr.core build with pdf2htmlEX.

RelWithDebInfo:

ls -lh /home/user/.conan2/p/b/odrco846defc3ae240/p/bin
total 432M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 144M Aug 16 15:54 back_translate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 145M Aug 16 15:54 meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 144M Aug 16 15:54 translate

Release:

ls -lh /home/user/.conan2/p/b/odrcof29b0b8019606/p/bin
total 71M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 24M Aug 16 16:09 back_translate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 24M Aug 16 16:09 meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 24M Aug 16 16:09 translate

We do need debug info for Android builds, do we make actual use of that in other platforms?

[ViliusSutkus89]

I've stuffed the server

ERROR: 
Error uploading file: conan_export.tgz, '400: No space left on device'
ERROR: 
Error uploading file: conan_sources.tgz, '400: No space left on device'
ERROR: 

It doesn't even respond to conan list's anymore

[andiwand]

I wonder if we need debug symbols at all for most of the libraries. pdf2htmlex makes sense if we think we can fix bugs there. But for the dependencies of it I wonder if we should just rather use Release

I cleaned the backups out should have space again

[ViliusSutkus89]

I don't think it's up again, mate ☠️

[ViliusSutkus89]

I've did a few rebuilds and on Android the size doesn't really change between RelWithDebInfo and Release. Gradle removes a lot when it strips symbols, so there's no need to worry about this on Android.

I'm more concerned about Linux binaries, because there's no gradle that strips binaries.

Do we even make any use of debug symbols on Linux?

[andiwand]

I don't think it's up again, mate ☠️

Should be back up

I've did a few rebuilds and on Android the size doesn't really change between RelWithDebInfo and Release. Gradle removes a lot when it strips symbols, so there's no need to worry about this on Android.

Right this is what I expected. I guess the question is more if we really need the debug infos of our dependencies. I would argue that we are only interested in debug symbols of code we maintain and we have under control. To me this is odr.core and maybe pdf2htmlex. But the dependencies of those we don't really control so if there is an exception / signal coming from there it is a problem we would fix on our side because we use the library in the wrong way or we update the dependency.

I'm more concerned about Linux binaries, because there's no gradle that strips binaries.

Do we even make any use of debug symbols on Linux?

For linux we do not need the debug symbols at all at the moment. They are safe to be removed completely.