alacritty: manually strip before running patchelf #85592
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Motivation for this change
patchelf seems to generate an ELF that "strip" cannot process:
(This unfortunately does not cause any errors or even error output in
the build log, since the default strip hook redirects them to /dev/null
and ignores failures.)
The lack of stripping ends up leaking paths to the compiler in the debug
symbols. This more than doubles the transitive closure size of
alacritty.
Impact on closure size: 314.5M -> 131.8M.
Note: I did not file a specific bug about this for patchelf, but there seem to be multiple similar bugs already open (e.g. NixOS/patchelf#196).
Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
./result/bin/
)nix path-info -S
before and after)