RFR: JDK-8164120: The minimal VM should be stripped using --strip-unneeded

[David Holmes]

Hi Erik,

On 3/10/2016 11:53 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> (adding hotspot-dev)
>
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> On 2016-10-03 15:52, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review this small change, which adds --strip-unneeded when
>> stripping the minimal VM on Linux, which reduces size on x86 builds
>> with around 1.2MB.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8164120
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8164120/webrev.hotspot.01/

I'm confused as to which is the chicken and which is the egg:

  STRIPFLAGS := $(JVM_STRIPFLAGS)

JVM_STRIPFLAGS := $(STRIPFLAGS) --strip-unneeded

??

Thanks,
David



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>> /Erik
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