cgit: strip debug symbols from cgit.cgi #104246
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Motivation for this change
The debug symbols result in an unneeded runtime dependency on GCC, and properly stripping them shrinks the size of the closure significantly.
Before:
/nix/store/8w3jvkmbkxd2jh3bg0w9pfhas81x8kd3-cgit-1.2.3 343805152
After:
/nix/store/gn64n0w8f7yqrzwwzcg8gi6v638hxfyk-cgit-1.2.3 147108936
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)My primary use case for this is generating Docker images, so that's what I've been testing with.