[Buildroot] Question about Compilation Flags
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Nov 12 09:21:42 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:06:11 +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote:
> Thank you very much for the reply. I think BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION and
> BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS are
> better solutions than what I did in config/Makefile.in
>
> I will try lighttpd.mk changes as you suggested.
>
> These are the numbers I found without changing lighttpd in a special way.
>
> du -ks output/target/ (default buildroot for mips without
> function/data/gc-section)
> 26188 output/target/
> du -ks output/target/ (with function/data/gc-sections)
> 25012 output/target/
>
> That gives a saving of 1176 KB then.
That's not bad indeed, about 4.4% space saving.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thomas
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