From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-25T06:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.0 preview4

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:42:24AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "Re: ruby 1.8.0 preview4"
>     on 03/07/24, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> |>   ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.0-preview4.tar.gz
> |
> |I notice code is compiled with -g and not stripped. Looking at 1.6.8 it
> |seems to be the same, so I guess this is intentional.
> 
> Strange.  It has not changed since 1.6.8; it should be compiled with
> "-g -O2" by default, without stripping.

It is. That's what I meant... that debugging symbols are included. It gets a
lot smaller if you strip them - under FreeBSD, about half size. I guess the
end-user or packager can choose that if they wish.

Cheers,

Brian.